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https://youtu.be/16RYvW2-OLg Superhero “Batman” tried to cheer up volunteers in a makeshift aid center in the Mexican capital, bringing much needed joy to a country still reeling from a destructive earthquake that claimed more than 300 lives a week ago. And this local “Batman” in Mexico City brought with him his very own “Bat Mobile” which also attracted the attention of the volunteers and residents. “Because they are working hand in hand, day after day, […]
by Marc Burleigh and Yemeli Ortega Agence France Presse MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Hopes of finding more survivors after Mexico City’s devastating quake dwindled to virtually nothing on Sunday, five days after the 7.1 tremor rocked the heart of the mega-city, toppling dozens of buildings and killing more than 300 people. Yet authorities were still accommodating anguished families who insisted that painstaking rescue operations continue at a handful of sites. Foreign teams from Japan, […]
by Sofia Miselem / Joshua Howat Berger Agence France Presse MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Anxiety mounted Friday as Mexico approached the crucial 72-hour mark after a devastating earthquake that killed nearly 300 people, with exhausted rescuers racing to reach survivors trapped in the rubble before it is too late. Anguished families watching and waiting at buildings that collapsed with their loved ones inside pleaded with authorities not to send in the […]
JOJULTA, Mexico (CCTV) — The death toll from Tuesday’s 7.1-magnitude earthquake in central Mexico has climbed to 273, the government said on Thursday. Half of those deaths occurred in the capital Mexico City, where nearly 40 buildings collapsed, while the other half in the surrounding states. According to a release from the national civil protection agency, 137 people were killed in the capital, 73 in Morelos state, 43 in Puebla state, 13 in the State […]
The frantic search for survivors continues after a powerful earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday, killing more than 200 people. On Torres Adalid Street in the capital, a neighbor filmed the collapse of a building from which she says “nobody came out.”
(Eagle News) – A magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook Auckland Island in southern New Zealand on Wednesday, September 20, with a depth of 10 kilometers, according to the United States Geological Survey. USGS recorded the quake 256 kilometers west of Auckland Island in New Zealand. Before this, USGS recorded another strong quake with a magnitude of 4.7. This was 273 kilometers northeast of Opotiki, New Zealand. After the 6.1 magnitude quake, another quake with a […]
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 […]
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 […]
(Eagle News) — No Filipino was injured or killed in the 8.1-magnitude earthquake that struck Mexico on Thursday. Vice Consul Mikhal de Dios of the Philippine Embassy in Mexico said that in the whole of Mexico City, there were 700 Filipinos, but most of them lived west and north of the city, not in the south, where the quake took place. “(Pero) malakas ang lindol dahil umabot dito sa Mexico City kahit 1000 kilometers ang […]
