California Quake Damages Seen Topping $100 Million

The magnitude-7.2 earthquake that shook the U.S.-Mexico border last weekend likely caused more than $100 million in damage in California alone, officials said Thursday, with damage estimates in Mexico yet to emerge.
 
April 9, 2010 - PRLog -- The magnitude-7.2 earthquake that shook the U.S.-Mexico border last weekend likely caused more than $100 million in damage in California alone, officials said Thursday, with damage estimates in Mexico yet to emerge.

Authorities have not finished tallying the wreckage in California’s economically strapped Imperial County, but extensive damage was apparent in water treatment systems, schools, businesses and homes.

U.S. Rep. Bob Filner, D-Chula Vista, said damage in the county likely will exceed $100 million and reported that at least 800 homes were severely damaged.

The most significant damage was to water and sewage systems in the county’s two largest cities, El Centro and Calexico, about 120 miles east of San Diego. Offices in the region’s main hospital also suffered extensive damage, Filner said.

Three schools in Calexico remained closed and suffered an estimated $15 million in damages, said Louis Fuentes, chairman of the Imperial County board of supervisors. He estimated damages to county government buildings at up to $20 million.

One of Calexico’s clay sewer lines ruptured late Wednesday, Fuentes said. At least 100 mobile homes have been knocked off their foundations or toppled

http://vetea.com/disasters/san-diego-boom.html

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