Earthquake country

        Mexico is one of the most active quake regions in the world.  I like to sleep on the floor on an air mattress. That way I can listen to the earth moving way below me. It sounds like rocks moving across sand.  Kind of squeaky yet steady sound as the ground is settling into that restlessness called earthquakes. When the crust releases built up pressure suddenly that is an earthquake.                 What I hear is the movement before an earthquake.  Just this morning I thought someone was pulling on me but it was the sudden shift of an 3.2 earthquake 150 miles to the south of Libertad.

    It can be unnerving when the earth moves rattling the windows and making the steeple bells clang.  The shock is paralyzing.  For really big ones, the ground moves in waves just like the ocean except it is freaking ground moving. The roadbeds go up and down before your eyes. Your senses tells you this is an illusion of some magician. Unfortunately, it is very real. 

         Your first motion should be to get outside as fast as you can. That is the only safety to be had.  Unless the building you are in has been retrofitted for earthquakes, any large temblor will do real and unforgiving damage.
     I chose Libertad because it is at a higher elevation. It is an inverted cone shaped formation of solid granite rock that the earliest settlers chose because it is a few degrees cooler than downtown Tijuana.  You can see the ocean from a few choice spots.  It is high enough to be safe from tidal waves. There seems to be a sea breeze wafting in from the ocean most of the time.  

   Small comfort though, for the insanely hot summers are unbearable unless you grew up in these latitudes. It is quite an adjustment for many. Get a sprayer fill it with ice cold water and mist your way to cool.  People move shadow to shadow during the intense days of sunshine.
      They just discovered another offshore fault system that will surely bring in a tidal wave of enormous proportion.  If it ever goes off which I am doubtful, because these minor releases diffuse the bigger quake.  I certainly hope I am high enough. If you listen to You Tubers, that day is closing fast.  Move now or move later. It is up to you.