2010 Baja California Earthquake

I am still recovering from the earthquake that struck the 4th of April, a nice peaceful Sunday afternoon that was disrupted by the intense shaking of the 2010 Baja California earthquake as it is being named! Even though I live about 150km from the epicenter, it was an intense shaking that had myself and my family headed for the back door in panic! I was reading this article on Live Science, well here is what they said:

Yesterday's magnitude-7.2 earthquake that rocked northern Mexico and parts of Southern California was barely worth noting compared to the ongoing, major forces that shape planet Earth. In a geologic sense, there are greater forces at work, from the coming and going of ice ages to an ongoing imbalance in the planet's rotation that make it wobble like a spinning top that's winding down.

Ummm, I agree on a global scale, but in my daily life, when the ground is shaking so hard I can barely stand, it is worthy of note, on my part at least.

"These large earthquakes are rare, catastrophic events," Gross explained. "What's normally causing the Earth's rotation to change is the surface mass movement of the oceans and atmosphere."

I am glad they are rare because it is no fun going through the main event and the aftershocks, and waiting for a larger aftershock, it really rattles the nerves!
I am just having a little fun with the article because it has been so stressful the last couple of days I feel like poking some fun at something, I do enjoy studying about earthquakes and learning new things about them, just not going through the experience first hand, at least this was in the afternoon and not in the middle of the night which is much worse.
Anyway, here is the article.

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