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| At least 47 people have been reported dead after a devastating earthquake shook Mexico City and the surrounding areas, destroying buildings and sending residents scrambling to help anybody caught under rubble. | At least 47 people have been reported dead after a devastating earthquake shook Mexico City and the surrounding areas, destroying buildings and sending residents scrambling to help anybody caught under rubble. |
| Videos and images showed rubble covering streets, cars smashed by fallen debris, and groups of people working together to lift large metal beams that appeared to have fallen during the trembling. It wasn't immediately clear how much damage had been done in the Mexican capital. | Videos and images showed rubble covering streets, cars smashed by fallen debris, and groups of people working together to lift large metal beams that appeared to have fallen during the trembling. It wasn't immediately clear how much damage had been done in the Mexican capital. |
| The powerful earthquake registered with as 7.1 magnitude tremor, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), and occurred on the anniversary of the devastating 1985 quake that also caused major damage in Mexico City. Earthquake drills were reportedly planned for that day. Mexico's seismological survey pegged the preliminary magnitude just a bit smaller, at 6.8, and indicated that the epicentre was located in the nearby municipality of Puebla. That community is about 40 miles southeast of the capital. | The powerful earthquake registered with as 7.1 magnitude tremor, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), and occurred on the anniversary of the devastating 1985 quake that also caused major damage in Mexico City. Earthquake drills were reportedly planned for that day. Mexico's seismological survey pegged the preliminary magnitude just a bit smaller, at 6.8, and indicated that the epicentre was located in the nearby municipality of Puebla. That community is about 40 miles southeast of the capital. |
| One visitor to the city, who asked to be identified simply as Juan, was in a penthouse building in the city when the quake struck. He sent The Independent a text which said: "One word: apocalyptic. We heard the earth roar and the buildings creak. My heart was still pounding fast, minutes afterwards." | One visitor to the city, who asked to be identified simply as Juan, was in a penthouse building in the city when the quake struck. He sent The Independent a text which said: "One word: apocalyptic. We heard the earth roar and the buildings creak. My heart was still pounding fast, minutes afterwards." |
| The governor of the central Mexican state of Morelos, Graco Ramirez, said that there were at least 42 people killed as a result of the earthquake in his state. Mr Ramirez said that 12 of those deaths occurred in the city Jojutla, and four more were in the state capital of Cuernavaca. Five deaths were reported by Governor Del Mazo of the State of Mexico, a revision from the initial two deaths that were reported in that state. | |
| Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said that there were 27 buildings that had collapsed in Mexico City. It wasn't immediately clear if there were fatalities in that capital. | |
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