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Scenic Mexican Coastal Highway Collapses

Posted January 02, 2014 11:56 AM

From Autoblog:

If you're looking for proof that this is Mother Nature's world and she merely allows us to live on it for a while, have a look at these videos coming out of Mexico. After a series of seven small earthquakes and heavy rains, a scenic coastal road has collapsed into a vaguely road-shaped pile of rubble.

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evaluator
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Re: Scenic Mexican Coastal Highway Collapses

01/02/2014 11:06 PM

The local news in San Diego opined that the road was built on an ancient earthquake fault line!!
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01/03/2014 1:33 PM

Looks like the highway was constructed on a sand dune......

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Re: Scenic Mexican Coastal Highway Collapses

01/03/2014 11:38 PM

Looks similar to the "devil's slide" area of Calif. Hwy 1 in the early 1950's, immediately south of San Francisco. This section was never rebuilt. It was crossing the San Andreas fault where it moved out into the ocean. Last time I was there, you could still see some remnants of the old highway and even walk along its right-of-way, but the road had been relocated far enough inland to be away from the crumbling cliffs. --JMM
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