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FOOTNOTE: *The Mexican refuge, which consists of ten sites in the mountainous Michoacan and Estado de Mexico provinces, attracts monarchs from the eastern two-thirds of North America. Western monarchs migrate to equally small and specific spots along the California coastline...
Given the initial communications void, there was no way of knowing how many casualties had occurred in Mexico's rural areas. But scattered damage was reported from the coastal states of Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco and Michoacan. These were close to the epicenter, which geologists located offshore near the border between Michoacan and Guerrero, some 200 miles southwest of Mexico City. Fortunately, the affected states are sparsely populated, and their rocky underpinnings provided some resistance to the tremors. Still, at least 150 people were reported killed in Jalisco and 30 in Michoacan, where two hotels were leveled at the resort...
...between past gaps hit by recent tremors are the areas most likely to rupture next, rather the way buttons popping on a shirt put greater pressure on the buttons still intact. Noting that earthquakes in the 20th century have periodically shaken surrounding regions, geologists knew that Mexico's Michoacan gap--quiescent for many decades--could not hold out forever. "Wherever stress builds up for a long time in a seismic gap," says David Simpson of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, "something's got to give...
Last week's disaster may lead to more insights. Scientists had earlier set up sophisticated seismological instruments in and around the Michoacan gap, and the devices were working when the spasm occurred. Says Seismologist James Brune of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography: "It will be the best-recorded major quake ever...
...Dovalina: "I came to work a year or two and return, but you get used to the comforts of life here." -- Guillermo, 41, a furniture repairman, asked that his family name not be revealed because he is in the U.S. illegally. He entered in 1975 from a village in Michoacan, Mexico, and drifted north to Seattle, hoping to earn enough to start his own business back home ("upholstery or construction, senor, it would not matter"). But by 1979 ! his wife Guadelupe advised him that prospects for founding a business or even earning a living wage in Michoacan were...