Mexico Hit By Second Devastating Earthquake
as Puerto Rico Prepares for Category 5 Killer Hurricane – Breaking
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Nature is still raging as a second major earthquake shakes Mexico andHurricane Maria looms off the coast of Puerto Rico (Photo via Twitter NASA SPoRT)
yet another Category 5 hurricane is about to hit Puerto Rico. While
Mexican rescue teams sift through the rubble and mourn the hundreds
dead, residents of Puerto Rico have been told, “Evacuate or die.”
Less than two weeks after getting hit by a major earthquake, leaving 90 dead, the earth shook yet again
in Mexico. At around 1PM local time on Tuesday, a 7.1 magnitude
earthquake hit Mexico. The government has confirmed that at least 216
people are dead, but the death toll is expected to rise as rescue
workers clear the rubble. The US Geological Survey predicted up to 1,000
fatalities will come from the earthquake, as well as an economic impact
of between $1-10 billion.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said more than 20 children and
two adults had died and 30 were missing after a school collapsed. 15
people were reportedly killed in Atzitzihuacan when a church on the
slopes of a volcano – which appeared to have a small eruption following
the earthquake – collapsed during a mass.
The epicenter of the latest quake was near Atencingo in Puebla state,
about 75 miles from Mexico City. At least 40 buildings collapsed in
Mexico City, the nation’s capital. About two million people in the
capital were left without electricity and phone lines were down in many
areas. Officials warned residents not to smoke on the streets as gas
mains could have been ruptured.
Many world leaders responded to the Mexican disaster and U.S.
President Donald Trump tweeted, “God bless the people of Mexico City. We
are with you and will be there for you.”
The quake hit just two hours after a nation-wide disaster drill. Each
year on September 19, cities across Mexico stage emergency disaster
simulations and evacuations. The drill falls on the anniversary of an
8.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Mexico City in 1985, killing nearly
10,000 people.
While Mexico struggles to recover, Puerto Rico braced for Hurricane
Maria. Meteorologists say it is the first Category 5 hurricane to make
landfall on the island in 80 years and may be the most powerful storm to
ever hit the island. Maria could bring up to 2 feet of rain and a storm
surge of up to 9 feet to Puerto Rico, sparking flooding and mudslides, CNN Meteorologist Allison Chinchar said.
Governor Ricardo Rosselló declared a state of emergency and urged people to evacuate.
“There’s still time … but people need to move fast,” Ricardo Rosselló told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an interview on Tuesday, calling the storm the “worst hurricane in modern history in Puerto Rico.”
Héctor Pesquera, Puerto Rico’s commissioner of public safety, was even more grim.
“You have to evacuate — otherwise, you are going to die,” he said, according to Telemundo, NBC’s Spanish-language network. “I do not know how to make this any clearer.”
Maria has already hit Dominica and killed at least one person in
Guadeloupe. Puerto Rico was spared last Tuesday when Hurricane Irma
swerved north. Irma killed at least 70 people as it raged through the Caribbean and the Southeastern United States earlier this month.
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