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119+ dead, 60 pulled alive from Mexico earthquake rubble

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Follow link for updates & video >>> http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-19/mexico-city-shaken-second-major-earthquake-2-weeks

At Least 119 Dead, 60 Pulled Alive From Rubble After Powerful Earthquake Rocks Central Mexico

Update 8 (7:15 pm ET): Death toll from Mexico earthquake now at 119, according to state and city officials.

That makes it the deadliest to hit the country since the 1985 quake that, in an incredible coincidence, occurred exactly 32 years ago today, surpassing the death toll from another earthquake the shook the region less than two weeks ago.

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Update 7 (6:50 pm ET): Mexico City government says 30 dead in capital, bringing nationwide total to 94, according to AP.

Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said that the number of buildings that collapsed has risen to 44, and that between 50 and 60 people have been pulled alive from rubble.

Horrifying videos of buildings crumbling into piles of rubble continue to emerge on Twitter.
 

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Another report, with video and roughly 5 dozen photos >>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ts-Mexico-anniversary-deadly-1985-tremor.html
At least 119 people are dead after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Mexico, causing gas line explosions, toppling buildings and forcing thousands to be evacuated into the street.

The tremor hit just hours after emergency drills around the nation on the anniversary of another devastating quake that killed thousands in Mexico City in 1985.

Today's quake hit near the Puebla state town of Raboso, about 76 miles southeast of Mexico City, at a depth of 32 miles, the US Geological Survey said.

Horrifying images coming out of the country's capital show rubble strewn across roads and enormous chunks of collapsed buildings laying on the ground with hundreds of terrified locals fleeing onto the streets.

As structures fell around her, local resident Georgina Sanchez, 52, said: 'I'm so worried. I can't stop crying. It's the same nightmare as in 1985.'

It comes just days after another powerful quake - measuring 8.1 - hit Mexico, killing at least 98 people.

Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said 50 to 60 people were rescued alive by citizens and emergency workers in Mexico City.

The federal interior minister, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, said authorities had reports of people possibly still being trapped in collapsed buildings. He said search efforts were slow because of the fragility of rubble.

'It has to be done very carefully," he said. And "time is against us.'

Mariana Morales, a 26-year-old nutritionist, was one many who spontaneously participated in rescue efforts.
She wore a paper face mask and her hands were still dusty from having joined a rescue brigade to clear rubble from a building that fell in a cloud of dust before her eyes, about 15 minutes after the quake.

Morales said she was in a taxi when the quake struck, and she out and sat on a sidewalk to try to recover from the scare. Then, just a few yards away, the three-story building collapsed.

Gala Dluzhynska was taking a class with 11 other women on the second floor of a building on the trendy Alvaro Obregon street when the quake struck and window and ceiling panels fell as the building began to tear apart.

She said she fell in the stairs and people began to walk over her, before someone finally pulled her up.

“There were no stairs anymore. There were rocks,” she said.

They reached the bottom only to find it barred. A security guard finally came and unlocked it.

Much of Mexico City is built on former lakebed, the soil of which can amplify the effects of earthquakes centered hundreds of miles away.
 

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Time to rebuild with some quality inspectors on the job, the ones that don't take mordida. ��
 

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Time to rebuild with some quality inspectors on the job, the ones that don't take mordida. ��

Sad to say but they need to update their building codes. A bit late to do that. The news is getting worse and worse. No doubt the death toll, now at 248, is going to continue to climb as they dig through the rubble of the collapsed buildings.


At least 20 schoolchildren among the 248 killed in Mexico after their school collapsed during a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that triggered explosions, collapsed buildings and sent people fleeing into the street

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT
  • At least 248 people are dead after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Mexico on anniversary of major 1985 quake
  • Epicenter was located in Puebla, around 75 miles from Mexico City which has borne the brunt of the damage
  • 20 children have been confirmed dead after school collapsed, with another 30 children and 8 adults missing
  • It comes just days after an 8.1 magnitude earthquake hit the country, killing another 98 people


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