By Benson Shing, Andreas Stavridis, Juan Murcia, Flavio Mosele, Ioannis Koutromanos, Hussein Okail, and Gabriele Guerrini.
April 2010, UC San Diego.
The reconnaissance team visited Calexico on April 7, 2010. The city is 32 miles north-northwest of the epicenter, and has a population of about 27,100 (Wikipedia). There are not many tall buildings in the city and the tallest ones are around three stories. According to the information provided by the city, nine buildings were red-tagged at the time of the visit. The team visited mainly the downtown area, and a bridge over an irrigation canal at mile post 22 along CA 98.