That peculiar geology explains Mexico City’s susceptibility to earthquakes such as Tuesday’s, which fell on the anniversary of a magnitude 8.0 quake in 1985 that lasted for three minutes and killed about 10,000 people in the city. "A spokesman for António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, said that he extended his condolences and that "the United Nations stands ready to assist. "This is our life's work. We are with you and will be there for you," he wrote.Texas Gov. The staff was waiting for the aftershocks to dissipate before fully evaluating the property.Situated at the intersection of three tectonic plates, Mexico is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. "The priority at this moment is to keep rescuing people who are still trapped and to give medical attention to the injured people," Peña Nieto added.President Donald Trump, who has clashed with Peña Nieto over his repeated calls for a border wall between their countries, sent his support in a tweet. "This time, the quake was much more violent.
The country's seismological service said the sea level rose 60 centimetres at Huatulco beach, normally a popular destination for U.S. and Canadian tourists but quieter now due to the coronavirus pandemic.Mexican president Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador said there had been more than 140 aftershocks, most of them small. "God bless the people of Mexico City. A 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck central Mexico in 2017 killed 355 people in the capital and the surrounding states.Helicopters flew low over the Roma and Condesa districts of the capital, apparently looking for damage in streets where many buildings still show the scars of the 2017 quake. "Videos on social media showed tables and light fixtures shaking in restaurants and street signs and traffic lights quivering outside.Mancera, the mayor, said 50 to 60 people were rescued alive by emergency workers and others.President Enrique Peña Nieto was on a flight to Oaxaca when the quake struck and He later issued a video message urging calm. "A drill at 11 a.m. and an earthquake at 1 p.m.," she said. The reasons for this discrepancy were not immediately clear.Dozens of buildings tumbled into mounds of rubble or were severely damaged in densely populated parts of Mexico City. About 200 houses in the area were damaged, including 30 that were badly impacted, a local official said. Rescue workers have not reached all villages reported to have suffered damage, raising fears that more people may be hurt.A Oaxaca state official said rescue workers were trying to get to the settlement of Santa Catarina Xanaguia, near the epicenter, where the quake brought down homes or parts of the mountainside, trapping people. Pemex was forced to briefly shutter the country's biggest oil refinery in Oaxaca.The quake triggered a small tsunami on the Oaxaca coast. Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said buildings fell at 44 places in the capital alone as high-rises across the city swayed sickeningly.The federal Education Department reported late Tuesday night that 25 bodies had been recovered from the wreckage of a school in southern Mexico City, where a wing of the three-story building collapsed into a massive pancake of concrete floor slabs. https://www.nbcnews.com/.../powerful-earthquake-shakes-mexico-city-n802711
People had sent messages for help by phone, the official added.The dead included a worker from state oil company Pemex, who suffered a bad fall, Mexico's civil protection agency said. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Gemma DiCasimirro, Jason Cumming, Erin Calabrese and The Associated PressPeople remove debris of a building that collapsed after an earth quake rattled Mexico City on Tuesday.First responders ask for silence as they search for survivors in Mexico City on Tuesday. It was impossible to maintain your balance. A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck southern Mexico's Pacific coast on Tuesday, killing at least six people, cutting off isolated villages, and causing tremors hundreds of kilometres away in Mexico City.The fatalities were near the quake's epicentre in Oaxaca, a mountainous state known for its coffee, mescal and Spanish colonial architecture.A Reuters witness in the tourist town of La Crucecita saw anxious residents standing outside their homes on the streets many hours after the tremor as they feared deadly aftershocks.Many houses were scarred by huge cracks across walls and residents sought to clear debris from the streets, the Reuters witness added. Rescuers frantically searched through the rubble of collapsed schools, homes and apartment buildings early Wednesday after Mexico's deadliest earthquake since 1985 killed at least 217 people.The quake struck at about 2:15 p.m.
"Daniella Silva is a reporter for NBC News, specializing in immigration and inclusion issues, as well as coverage of Latin America.Rima Abdelkader is a senior reporter for Social Newsgathering at NBC News in New York.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. "This is the most powerful thing I have ever seen in my life. "It's a place that doesn't usually have earthquakes, but it can. "Earthquake expert Lucy Jones, who spent 33 years at the USGS, told NBC News that the earthquake was "quite an unusual occasion" because of where it occurred.
They then quieted down to listen for calls from other survivors.Mexico's Secretariat of National Defense said 3,400 soldiers were deployed.Robert W. Bouman was in Mexico City visiting family when the quake struck — the second he had experienced in Mexico in less than two weeks. "It's an incredibly terrifying and scary experience," Bouman, 31, told NBC News. Its epicenter was in the state of Puebla, about 80 miles southeast of Mexico City.Mexico's National Civil Defense agency put the death toll at 248 early Wednesday, but later reduced the number to 217.
In 1985, a devastating earthquake killed as many as 10,000 people in Mexico City. "The USGS said the epicentre of Tuesday's quake was located 69 kilometres northeast of the town of Pochutla.
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