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by Yemeli ORTEGA Agence France Presse JUCHITAN DE ZARAGOSA, Mexico (AFP) — Police, soldiers and emergency workers raced Friday to rescue survivors from the ruins of Mexico’s most powerful earthquake in a century, which killed at least 59 people. In the southern region hit hardest by the quake, emergency workers looked for survivors — or bodies — in the rubble of houses, churches and schools that were split down the middle, spilling their innards onto […]
Pointe-à-Pitre, France (AFP) — The French part of the Caribbean island St Martin is “95 percent destroyed” after Hurricane Irma tore through the region, top local official Daniel Gibbs said late Wednesday. “It’s an enormous catastrophe. Ninety-five percent of the island is destroyed. I’m in shock. It’s frightening,” said Gibbs, a former French lawmaker, speaking on Radio Caribbean International. The island is in need of emergency assistance, he said. “I have sick people to evacuate, […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Florida Governor Rick Scott warned Friday that all of the state’s 20 million inhabitants should be prepared to evacuate as Hurricane Irma bears down for a direct hit on the southern US state. “The storm is powerful and deadly,” Scott said. “Do not ignore evacuation orders. “Remember, we can rebuild your home, we can’t rebuild your life,” he said. “All Floridians should be prepared to evacuate soon.” Irma was […]
by Yemeli Ortega Agence France Presse JUCHITAN DE ZARAGOZA, Mexico (AFP) Mexico’s most powerful earthquake in a century killed at least 58 people, officials said Friday, after it struck the Pacific coast, wrecking buildings and sending families fleeing into the streets. Rescue workers rushed to the worst scenes of destruction, in the southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, where officials warned there may be people trapped in the ruins. President Enrique Pena Nieto described […]
MEXICO City, Mexico (AFP) — At least 15 people were killed in a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake in Mexico, an official said Friday, as 10 more bodies were found in the southern city of Juchitan. “The death toll is 15 in all… based on the figures from each state,” the head of the disaster management agency, Ricardo de la Cruz, told TV station Milenio after the quake, the most powerful to hit Mexico in a […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Irma has been downgraded to a Category Four hurricane but is still extremely dangerous, the National Hurricane Center said on Friday. The storm raging in the Caribbean which is en route to Florida is now packing maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per hour (250 kilometres per hour), the agency said its 0900 GMT update. That is down from speeds of 185 mph when Irma was at its peak […]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — An earthquake of magnitude 8.1 struck off the southern coast of Mexico late on Thursday (September 7), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, killing at least five people, triggering small tsunami waves and damaging some buildings. Eyewitness phone footage showed the moment the earthquake struck in a hotel room in Mexico City. Further footage of Mexico City International Airport’s Terminal 2 showed what appeared to be earthquake damage to the floor. […]
by Sofia Miselem Agence France-Presse MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — A rare and powerful 8.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Mexico late Thursday, killing at least two people as seismologists warned of a tsunami of more than three meters (10 feet). The quake hit offshore in the Pacific about 120 kilometers (75 miles) southwest of the town of Tres Picos in far southern Chiapas state, the US Geological Survey said, putting the magnitude at 8.1. Mexico’s seismologic […]
(Eagle News) — A very strong magnitude 8.1 quake rocked Mexico at 4:49 UTC time (12:59 p.m., Philippine time) near the coast of Chiapas, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Preliminary reports showed that the quake had a depth of 35 kilometers. Its epicenter was located 96 kilometers southwest of Pijijiapan, Mexico. The USGS earlier recorded the quake at 8.0, but upgraded it to a magnitude 8.1 quake later. Strong aftershocks A […]
(Video courtesy Rose dela Cruz, Eagle News Service) (Reuters) — Hurricane Irma left a wake of damage on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic on Thursday (September 7) as the “extremely dangerous” storm swept through the Caribbean with 175 mph winds. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has said Irma remains an extremely dangerous Category 5 storm as it takes aim at the Turks and Caicos islands and Florida where it is expected to […]
(Agence France Presse) — Hurricane Irma has churned through a string of Caribbean islands, many of them famed for their pristine beauty and tropical climes, and threatens others. Here are background details about these areas: – Anguilla – A group of flat and low-lying islands east of Puerto Rico, Anguilla is a self-governing overseas territory of Britain. It is small (91 square kilometres/35 square miles) with a population estimated at around 17,000. – Antigua […]
(Eagle News) — Category 5 Hurricane Irma, with winds of up to 290 kilometers per hour, battered Turks and Caicos islands on Thursday as people in the Caribbean and those in the hurricane’s path in the Southeastern United States started bracing themselves for what could be the strongest hurricane of their lives. Turks and Caicos is an archipelago of 40 low-lying coral islands in the Atlantic Oceaan, and is a British Overseas Territory southeast […]
