Remembering the 2010 Easter Sunday Earthquake

As a number of earthquakes and aftershocks rattle the desert southwest, residents are remembering the 7.2 magnitude Mexicali earthquake that struck on Easter Sunday in 2010.

It was so powerful that it shifted the Earth’s crust up to 10 feet in Mexico, according to radar images and data released Wednesday by NASA>

The Easter Sunday quake also shifted the crust 31 inches near Calexico . The data for the California shift came from NASA satellites and those for the Mexican shift from European and Japanese satellites.

Scientists say the shifts are large, especially for California, but they are not record-setting. The largest such ” deformation ” ever measured was 60 feet after the massive 9.5 earthquake that struck Chile in 1960.

Thursday’s Ridgecrest earthquake was the largest to his the region since that Easter Sunday earthquake.