Quake Hits Mexicali; Shakes San Diego, Imperial Counties
An earthquake centered 10 miles southeast of Mexicali and measuring about 5.5 on the Richter scale rocked parts of San Diego and Imperial counties Friday evening but was believed to have caused no damage north of the border, authorities reported.
Robert Finn, a spokesman for the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said the quake occurred at 7:45 p.m. and was felt throughout southern San Diego County. Finn said callers indicated the earthquake was felt as far east as Yuma, Ariz., but there were no reports of damage.
Daniel Saenz, a police dispatcher in Calexico, the U.S. border town adjacent to Mexicali, reported that “the whole police department was shaking. You could just see the walls shaking and afterwards you could feel the ground swaying back and forth.”
Nevertheless, Saenz said there were “no major injuries or any structural damage at all” in Calexico.
It could not be determined late Friday whether the quake had caused damage in Mexico.
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