“Given the size and the magnitude of the quake and the areas [affected], things are going reasonably well,”
Kofi Annan
“Quakes of this size, in populated areas, can be just devastating.”
Bruce Presgrave
“We know the quake was about magnitude 7.0, and we know the epicenter was located 32 miles north of Joshua Tree which would put it in the Mojave Desert area in Southern California,”
Kate Hutton
“We know the quake was about magnitude 7.0 and we know the epicenter was located 32 miles north of Joshua Tree, which would put it in the Mojave Desert area in Southern California,”
“A quake of this size has some pretty serious effects,”
Waverly Person
“The system is capable of producing a quake near 4.0 magnitude every three years. And they'll cause minimal damage.”
Gary Patterson
“The intensity of the quake was quite strong enough - but the shoddy materials may have caused even more deaths.”
Bushra Gohar