Thursday, 21/09/2017 17:51 (GMT+7)
On September 19th, a powerful earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck Mexico.
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More than 200 people had been reported killed across the country, including at least 30 pupils in a fallen school in Mexico city.
Some 27 buildings collapsed in Mexico city, said President Enrique Pena Nieto. He cut short a visit to the southern state of Oaxaca, which had been badly hit in the earlier quake on September 7th.
The epicentre of the quake was near the Puebla state town of Raboso, about 122km southeast of Mexico city, at a depth of 51 km, the US Geological Survey said.
As many as 4.6 million homes, businesses and other facilities lost electricity, according to national power company Comision Federal de Electricidad. Most of them were in the greater Mexico city area and in the states of Guerrero, Morelos, Puebla, Oaxaca, and Tlaxcala.
Emergency personnel and equipment were being deployed across affected areas so that “throughout the night we can continue aiding the population and eventually find people beneath the rubble,” Pena Nieto said.
The quake was the second major earthquake to hit Mexico in two weeks and came on the anniversary of the 1985 quake that devastated Mexico city, killing 5,000 people and destroying 10,000 homes./.
Compiled by BTA