[meteorite-list] Signal Mountain (IVA), Baja California

From: ensoramanda at ntlworld.com <ensoramanda_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 18:27:33 +0100
Message-ID: <20100407182733.YFQXD.190151.root_at_web04-winn.ispmail.private.ntl.com>

Hi Bob,

Just found a link to the pictures you wanted..plus lots more...amazing. Must have been terrifying.

Here...

http://forum.surfermag.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=1790955&an=0&page=0

Graham, UK

---- Robert Verish <bolidechaser at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Easter Sunday afternoon Moni Waiblinger and myself were hiking in the Yuha Desert near Ocotillo (just north of the US-Mexican Border) when the M~7.1 earthquake struck south of Mexicali. You couldn't be any closer to the epicenter and still be in the US. Needless to say, this was the strongest earthquake that I've experienced.
>
> But what I saw AFTER the quake was equally amazing. Clouds of dust were rising up from most of the canyons in the nearby mountains, the result of rock-falls and possible landslides. The mountain to the south of us in Baja (which I call "Signal Mountain") was covered in a cloud of dust. Images of this phenomenon were shown on the local San Diego TV News stations (still looking for a link of this image - my images were too obscured by dust).
>
> I'm wondering where the Signal Mountain iron meteorite was "actually" found, and whether these recent rock falls might possibly unearth additional masses of this iron? -- Bob V.
>
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Received on Wed 07 Apr 2010 01:27:33 PM PDT


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