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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Tropical Storm Norma surged to hurricane strength late Friday off Mexico’s Pacific coast which was pounded just hours earlier by Tropical Storm Max. Norma looked likely to churn toward the Los Cabos resort area, according to the US National Hurricane Center in Miami. At 0300 GMT, Norma was 270 miles (435 kilometers) south of Cabo San Lucas, packing top sustained winds of 75 mph (120 km/h). It was expected to […]
BOCA DEL CIELO, Chiapas, Mexico (CCTV) — Victims along the southern coast of Mexico are still dealing with devastating aftershocks from the 8.2-magnitude earthquake which hit the region last Thursday. Julio Lopez is a fisherman living in a small fishing town, Boca del Cielo, in Chiapas. His house was damaged by the earthquake, so he and his family are now staying in his friend’s home in Tonala. As online rumors begin to spread about the […]
JUCHITAN CITY, Mexico (CCTV) — The Mexican government has stepped up relief efforts in clearing rubbles and ruling out construction hazards in the state of Oaxaca after an 8.2-magnitude earthquake shook the region. The arrival of armies and navies has boosted the moral among residents of the hardest-hit Juchitan City. While the soldiers gathered more information on casualties and damages, some remote regions are yet to be searched, according to Lieutenant Victor Ayala of the […]
TONALA, Chiapas state, Mexico (CCTV) — In addition to providing food and medical assistance, Mexican authorities in the city of Tonala are making sure children sheltering at a local relief center can continue to receive their education despite the loss of their school buildings to a powerful earthquake last week. The 8.2 magnitude quake, the strongest to hit Mexico in living memory, has killed at least 96 people across the country, and left some 2.5 […]
JUCHITAN, Mexico (CCTV) — Help arrived for some homeless families in Mexican town of Juchitan in Oaxaca State after an 8.2-magnitude earthquake hit the country’s southern coast. Many are resting at the Technological Institute of the Isthmus that has become a temporary shelter for families left homeless following Thursday’s massive earthquake. Private citizens have brought food from a neighboring state, enough to feed hundreds. On the night of the earthquake, Jocelin Gomez and her family […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — The death toll from a major earthquake that struck southern Mexico earlier this week has risen to 90, authorities reported Sunday, after 25 new deaths were confirmed in Oaxaca state. “The number of people who lost their lives amounts to 90, of whom 71 were in Oaxaca, 15 in Chiapas and four in Tabasco,” the interior ministry said in a statement. Mexican seismological authorities measured Thursday night’s quake at magnitude […]
(Reuters) — North Korea’s ambassador to Mexico on Friday (September 08) said its tensions with the US were not Mexico City’s business, after President Enrique Pena Nieto ordered he leave the country in protest at Pyongyang’s nuclear tests. In a statement, the Mexican government said it had given Ambassador Kim Hyong Gil 72 hours to leave Mexico in order to express its “absolute rejection” of North Korea’s recent nuclear activity, describing it as a […]
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 […]
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 […]
