Acapulco Sunsets: Crazy Skies Bring Huge Earthquakes (Magnitude 8.0 earthquake off the Mexican coast of Chiapas)
Tonight in Acapulco we had one of the best sunsets we've had in awhile and just as I sit down to share these photos with you, Rebel starts freaking out for no reason. John and I spent a bit discussing why he was acting the way he was when the earth started to rumble and I cut him off with "It's an earthquake, and it's still happening."
The rain had just started and I thought it was thunder at first but as the ground kept rumbling it was clear it was a quake. I think it even temporarily stopped before starting again. It was long enough for me to post "acapulco has been quaking for like a minute now, literally still quaking" without lying about it. It's by far the longest one we've experienced here.
John immediately started looking into it and found it was a 8.0 earthquake 395 miles from here off the coast of Chiapas, which is now at risk for tsunami. Oaxaca, the neighboring state experienced a lot of shaking and possible damage too.
To put it in perspective there are less than 100 magnitude 8.0 earthquakes or above recorded in the last 100 years. I wish the best for the people living on the coast of Chiapas and Oaxaca.
There's a tsunami warning now, crazy stuff! [Here's] the wikipedia page already posted on the event.
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Beautiful Sunset!
Beautiful scenes of the sunset, fantastic colors, transitioning from color to color. Were these on the same day/night? Great!
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That was some impressive sunset! Probably the best you have captured so far :-) How ironic that this was the preamble for such an unexpected and catastrophic occurrence. I hope there was no significant damage over there, and that everyone is well and safe @lily-da-vine.
woow what views, you have made a beautiful pictures. the sky has always been here with these beautiful colors.. but you picture are awesome in different places. @lily-da-vine
wow this is so beautiful
Amazing. . I like it. . Thankyou for sharing 👏👏👏
Jeesh. Solar flairs, the West coast of the US is burning (it's been snowing ash here in Portland for the last 4 days or so), massive hurricanes in the East Coast and now Earthquakes there?
Sounds like the damned apocalypse.
Glad you're safe! Keep us posted!
All pic are beautiful
That can be a scary thing to try. I know because my wife is a philippina and they have a lot of earth quakes. Nature have so much power that it's almost unbelievable. Hope you are all ok
Love the view