Sorry for not posting yesterday. I worked a double shift yesterday so that some of the people with small children could have the day off and spend the time with their families on Easter.

While at work we had a bit of excitement when the earthquake hit. I work in Commerce Ca. which is about 120 miles from Mexicali. It was a long rolling earthquake, and it gave us a good shake.

There was no damage but the pair pigeons that live in the shop disappeared and did not return as of 10 o’clock last night.

Two people died and around 100 were injured when a strong 7.2 magnitude quake rocked the Mexico-California border area on Sunday afternoon, Baja California Gov. Jose Osuna told the Televisa television network. One person was crushed in a collapsed house, the other hit by a falling wall.

The tremor, felt as far north as Los Angeles, cracked main roads, toppled electricity posts and knocked down an empty multistorey car park under construction in Mexicali, a prosperous city and busy border crossing.

Hundreds of people camped out overnight as smaller tremors shook buildings with cracked floors, walls and broken windows.

“I wasn’t going to put my family at risk. Lots of homes have cracks,” said Fermin Garcia, a teacher who slept with her family in a tent pitched between two shopping centers.

Broken gas pipes sparked a number of fires on Sunday, and darkened streets in Mexicali triggered car accidents, but no major buildings appeared to have collapsed.

Power was slowly being reestablished on Monday, but many state-run hospitals lacked power and patients were laid out on beds in parking lots due to worries over cracked walls.

A highway connecting Mexicali with the nearby border city of Tijuana on the Pacific coast was ruptured by a crack at least a meter (3 feet) deep, according to a Reuters witness.

A liquefied natural gas import terminal operated by Sempra Energy south of Tijuana was not damaged however, a company spokeswoman said.

The thing that no one seems to mention is that most of the country of Chile is located in the Andes Mountains. These mountains were formed by earthquakes.

Two strong earthquakes shook Chile Thursday as Sebastian Pinera prepared to take office as the country’s new president.

The U.S. Geological Survey measured a 7.2 magnitude quake in Chile’s Libertador O’Higgins region, about 124 kilometers from the capital Santiago. It followed a magnitude 5.1 quake centered in the Arucania, Chile region, about 555 kilometers south of the capital.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the new quakes. A major 8.8-magnitude earthquake in February killed hundreds of people.

The new quakes came as dignitaries gathered in the capital to witness Mr. Pinera succeed Chile’s first female president, socialist Michelle Bachelet, who is barred from a second consecutive term.

Mr. Pinera, a Harvard-educated economist, is expected to steer the Chilean economy toward more free market policies.

The inauguration marks the first time a conservative has led the country since democracy was reinstated in 1990.

Ms. Bachelet leaves office with high public approval ratings – despite criticism over the government’s initial response to the 8.8 magnitude quake that rocked the South American country February 27.

Wednesday, the head of Chile’s emergency management agency resigned in the fallout over the failure to issue a clear warning about the tsunami that followed the quake.

The Chilean government has said reconstruction will cost about $30 billion and that it will take about three or four years to rebuild the country.