Mexico-city –
UPDATE 10.05 pm – at Least six deaths, the provisional balance sheet of a very heavy earthquake early Friday morning in Mexico. Five people in Mexico and one in Guatemala were killed in the strongest quake in the Latin American country in over eighty years.
Mexico City Thursday: Queen Maxima visit the city by virtue of its function as a UN advisor.
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The epicentre was in the southern state of Chiapas. Also in Mexico city wiegden tall buildings, back and forth. In the well-known tourist town of San Cristobal de las Casas, three persons killed when a wall collapsed. In the nearby state of Tabasco demanded the catastrophe two children’s lives.
On the street, than fearful Mexicans the up of, for example, the pillar of the monument to the independence in the centre of the city.
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’Very strong’
This earthquake was very strong and is felt in an area where fifty million Mexicans live in’, said president Enrique Peña Nieto on national television. He warned, moreover, for a possible powerful aftershock. Since the earthquake, more than sixty smaller shocks observed.
In the capital city of the falls, despite the enormous power of the earthquake, with regard to damages. In the old central districts of the city such as Medical and Vertiz would some of the buildings on the brink of collapse. Also, the light failed in some areas. Metro stations are cracks in the floor observed. At the airport is broken. But helicopter rides above the city have at the moment no major damage observed.
’Really scary’
This was really quite scary’, says the man in his twenties Rocío, that the earthquake experienced in the old neighborhood of Roma Sur. Most of amsterdam rushed to the streets after the aardbevingsalarm sounded. Usually, there are another thirty to sixty seconds before the quake occurs. Because the ancient sites of Mexico City on a soft lake bed, are extra sensitive to quakes.
,,I was out in a pub and heard the alarm,’ says the Dutchman Hans van den Bongard. He was baseball to watch, have a go at his favorite Italian in the neighborhood of Condesa. ,,I was,’ says the Limburger sober. It is nevertheless a stronger quake than the quake of 1985, in the capital, when ten thousand victims.
’Everything was going up and down
The Dutchman Laurens Schönigh came with the fright in his apartment in the district of Roma Norte in Mexico City. ,,Well built this thing, but everything went up and down,’ he says in a Whatsapp group of footballing Dutch team ‘Naranja Mecanica’ in Mexico City.
Residents of the capital are called to their houses to check for cracks and gas leakages. Mexican children have a blessing, because the trembling makes sure that they do not go to school do on Friday. First want authorities all school buildings for damage, check.
’Go inland’
The governor of Chiapas has residents along the coast and called into the interior. There is a tsunami warning in effect, but abnormally high waves are not yet observed.
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