Bow Stress: Deep Crack Opens in Viesca, Mexico

08.07.14.

Mexico

26.06.14. Deep ground crack opened in Viesca, Coahuila, Mexico. Crack crosses two fields and three farms. Residents fear that the crack is getting bigger and deeper.

One ditch is at least half a kilometer long, 3 meters wide and 20 meters deep. According to residents, about 4:00 am on Saturday, they heard a loud explosion.

A few hours later crack crossed the bathroom, hallway and room, although the house concrete foundation.
http://www.milenio.com/region/Viesca-zanja-grieta-Proteccion_Civil_de_Coahuila-lluvias_0_324567886.html

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Chile

28.06.14. Five months after the earthquake in Chile, the scientific community continues to explore the consequences that left the most powerful movement in history. In an article published today in the journal Science, said that the earthquake opened a crack in the ground of 500 kilometers along the coast, which has found a working group of researchers led by Marcelo Farias and Gabriel Vargas, University of Chile. The maximum difference in height up to 2.5 meters.

http://www.publimetro.cl/nota/cronica/science-sobre-terremoto-en-chile-dejo-grieta-de-500-kms-y-maximo-desnivel-de-2-5-mts/xIQjgC!Jc8QcIZKc7A6/

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Peru

01.07.14. In the area of ​​Limatambo, located 75 kilometers from the city of Cusco, emergency was declared. This measure was motivated by the fact that on top of the mountain Moyocmarca was found a crack that threatens to cause a collapse in the valley of Cuzco. At the National Institute of Civil Defense of Cusco reported, that this geological fault may lead to landslides of hundreds tons of earth and stones.

http://www.larepublica.pe/01-07-2014/limatambo-en-emergencia-por-falla-geologica-en-cerro