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Devils Hole - Death Valley National Park, March 20, 2012 (DeathValleyNHA)
LAS VEGAS — Video of a southern Mexico earthquake sloshing the waters of a tranquil spring pool outside Las Vegas is gaining steam online.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports three National Park Service technicians were doing maintenance on data recorders at Devil's Hole March 20 when the waters started surging more than 2 feet high.
The researchers grabbed a camera to film the so-called "desert tsunami," which began about 10 minutes after a magnitude-7.4 earthquake rocked the mountains east of Acapulco, about 1,700 miles from southern Nevada.
Devil's Hole is a flooded limestone cavern that researchers call a window to the groundwater table. It extends more than 430 feet underground.
Scientific instruments there have captured ripples from major earthquakes in Japan and China.
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