Can't believe this. Weight of 20 trillion gallons of water on Texas?
Map at the link.
Magnitude-8.1 Earthquake Hits Off Mexico’s Southern Coast
by RICHIE DUCHON and KURT CHIRBAS
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/magnitude-8-0-earthquake-hits-mexico-s-southern-coast-n799726?cid=eml_nbn_20170908
Excerpts
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.1 struck off the southern coast of Mexico early Friday prompting potential tsunami threats along the entire southern coast of Central America.
The quake struck about 70 miles off the coast of Chiapas, Mexico, near the border with Guatemala at 12:49 a.m. ET. The U.S. Geological Survey initially estimated the magnitude at 8.0 before revising it to 8.1 The Mexican Seismological Agency rated it at magnitude 8.4. ...
The sizable quake prompted the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center to issue warnings lasting for three hours along the borders of nearly all Central American countries, including Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. It said tsunami waves could reach almost 10 feet along the Mexican coast. ...