A 7.5-magnitude earthquake has rattled large
swaths of southern and central Mexico, killing a minimum of one person,
consistent with the country’s president.
According
to the U.S. Roughly 200 miles (320 kilometers) away in Mexico City, people fled into the road as
buildings swayed, alarms blared and pavement stones moved visibly underfoot,
national capital, where buildings shook and panicked residents fled on to the
streets.
“It really moved,” said Francisco Aceves, the
owner of an import-export firm in capital of Mexico who was on the 22nd floor
of an office building when the quake struck.
Mexican newspapers said there have been no
immediate reports of injury within the capital, where memories of a 2017
earthquake that felled buildings and killed over 300 people are still fresh.
“So far no major damage has been reported - just the collapse of some walls and building fronts,” Claudia Sheinbaum, the city’s mayor, said during a video from Mexico City’s emergency response centre.
The situation near the quake’s epicentre in
Crucecita, Oaxaca, was not immediately clear. But in an exceedingly social
media “message to the Mexican people” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
officials said one person had been confirmed dead after a landslide along the
country’s seashore.
Another person was injured. López Obrador, or
Amlo as he is widely known, said no “strategic infastructure” like ports,
airports, refineries and hydroelectric dams had been damaged.
“Everything is in fine condition,” Amlo said urging Mexicans to remain alert but calm. Richard Hanson, a 44-year-old American who runs an NGO in Oaxaca’s capital called Tejiendo Alianzas, said: “It started really slow ... so very quickly it notched up in no time.” “Our fan was on the road lots, you may hear the noise of the walls and also the earth moving, things stared drop-off the shelves within the kitchen and crashing and breaking on the bottom.”
Photographs from the capital showed rubble strewn streets and therefore the partially collapsed facade of 1 historic building.
The earthquake’s epicentre was just
east of Huatulco, one amongst Mexico’s top tourist destinations, where beaches
had scarcely reopened last week after closing thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Reuters said Tuesday’s quake go away a tsunami warning for a radius of 1,000 km (621 miles) on the Pacific coasts of Mexico and Central America, including Mexico, Guatemala, Republic of El Salvador, and Honduras.
Oaxaca’s state governor, Alejandro Murat, told Milenio Televisión the
quake had triggered landslides, stop road links between some towns and damaged
some buildings, including one hospital that had been treating Covid-19patients.
Murat said the sick were being moved
elsewhere. But no major buildings within the urban center looked as if it would
are severely damaged.
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