PHOTOS: Baja California earthquake
A man stands next to a cooking fire in one of dozens of squatter camps near a trash strewn river wash along Highway 4 in the farming pueblo of La Puerta. He and his extended family left their earthquake damaged and flooded homes for the open desert. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
A railroad worker stands near a section of bridge where the tracks collapsed into the
Martin Ramos, 87, watches his son Geronimo, 55, wade across water that surrounds his house in Baja California’s Mexicali Valley. Ramos said the earthquake cause water to erupt from beneath the ground which flooded his home of 30 years. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Sergio Robles and his wife, Laura Verdugo, set up camp in a government shelter in La Puerta, Mexico, for people displaced by the earthquake. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Antonio Barrientos Caudillo, 11, inspects the quake-damaged Our Lady of Perpetual Help church in La Puerta, Mexico. Antonio’s family has been camping on the church’s grounds since the earthquake. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Antonio Barrientos Caudillo walks outside Our Lady of Perpetual Help church in La Puerta, Mexico, which was devastated in the earthquake. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Francisco Cortez cooks for his family in the shade of a mesquite tree off the side of Highway 5 about 30 miles south of Mexicali, Mexico. His extended family of 13 people will sleep in their cars, in tents and on the ground because their homes were ruined in the quake. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Members of the Espinosa family move a stove they salvaged from their home into a makeshift shelter they set up in the desert. Their home in nearby Colonia Cucapah was destroyed in the earthquake. They and hundreds of other residents of the farming community south of Mexicali are too frightened to be in their homes because of damage and the continual aftershocks that have rattled a wide area for the last few days. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Roberto Castro Chavez bumps his head as he leaves the front of his heavily damaged home south of Mexicali, Mexico. Chavez said he had recently finished remodeling the house. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Roberto Gonzalez Chavez, 45, finds a frying pan in the rubble of his home in Colonia La Puerta, a farming village in the Mexicali Valley about 15 miles south of the city of Mexicali. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Much of the nearly completed four-story parking garage at the Mexicali Civic Center lies in ruins after the magnitude 7.2 earthquake. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Residents whose homes were destroyed in the quake wait with some of their belongings on the side of the highway south of Mexicali. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
A man digs his car out of a sinkhole in the farming village of Ejido Cucapah. The quake pushed up water from below the earth’s surface, leaving the area a flooded, muddy mess. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
A couple rests in a car as their extended family sets up camp just off Highway 5, about 20 miles south of Mexicali. The earthquake has forced hundreds of people from their flooded and damaged homes. Many are sleeping in makeshift camps. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
A passenger takes a photo of a damaged portion of the road near the epicenter. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
A young man rejoices after receiving a couple of bottles of water from an SUV that stopped along Highway 5 near Mexicali. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
These people walked more than seven miles to an ad hoc aid distribution center on the side of Highway 5. The light fixture in the foreground was nearly toppled in the quake. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
A fissure splits the ground at an equipment repair facility about 15 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Display window glass, fractured in Sunday’s earthquake, reflects an intersection in the old market district of Calexico. Many blocks of the popular border town’s commercial district were closed and guarded by U.S. Border Patrol agents from the nearby Port of Entry. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
A customs building near the U.S. border in Mexicali, Mexico, shows signs of earthquake damage. (Sandy Huffaker / Getty Images)
A man surveys the damage to a building in Mexicali, Mexico. (Sandy Huffaker / Getty Images)
Sal Farah talks about the 7.2 earthquake that shattered most of the display windows at his furniture store on Imperial Avenue in
Jorge Lepo, manager of a cash-and-carry grocery store on 2nd Avenue in Calexico, surveys damage to his store on the morning after the
Part of a building in Mexicali, Mexico, fell to the sidewalk because of the Easter Sunday quake. (Sandy Huffaker / Getty Images)
Pedestrians heading into the U.S. from Mexicali walk along a rail line outside the
A street in Mexicali,
A man sleeps amid his belongings in Mexicali, Mexico, after his house was wrecked by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake. (Guillermo Arias / Associated Press)
A family stays in their front yard in Mexicali, Mexico, after the Easter Sunday earthquake. (Guillermo Arias / Associated Press)
A Mexicali man gathers belongings at his collapsed house. (Daniel Conejo / AFP/Getty Images)
Injured patients await treatment in the hallways of the Municipal Hospital in Mexicali, Mexico. (Sandy Huffaker / Getty Images)
Hospital workers tend to a woman having a baby in the parking lot of the seven-story hospital after a 7.2 earthquake rocked the Mexicali area. The hospital suffered extensive damage. (Don Barletti / Los Angeles Times)
A Mexicali hospital technician surveys a crack on the hospital floor after a powerful temblor rocked the area. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Merchandise is strewn throughout a shoe store in Calexico, Calif., after the quake that struck the area Sunday. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Post-quake cleanup at a store in Calexico, Calif. A magnitude 7.2 quake centered in Baja California, Mexico, caused damage on both sides of the border and could be felt as far as Los Angeles and Phoenix. (Sandy Huffaker / Getty Images)
In Calexico, Calif., Juan Munoz dodges debris from a building damaged in the temblor. (Sandy Huffaker / Getty Images)
Ana Velazquez and daughters Mariana and Angelica huddle after crossing into the U.S. from Mexico in the aftermath of the quake in Baja California. (Sandy Huffaker / Getty Images)
Guests of the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina wait to be allowed back to their rooms hours after the magnitude 7.2 earthquake centered in Baja California rumbled through Southern California, causing some damage in San Diego. Guests were evacuated until the hotel was deemed safe by inspectors. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
