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At least 60 dead, over 200 injured after magnitude-8.1 earthquake rocks Mexico
Source: ABC News
At least 60 dead, over 200 injured after magnitude-8.1 earthquake rocks Mexico
By M.L. NESTEL, J.J. GALLAGHER, DAVID CAPLAN and MARK OSBORNE
Sep 8, 2017, 6:05 PM ET
At least 60 people were killed after a magnitude-8.1 earthquake rocked Mexico late Thursday night, leveling buildings in southern Mexico, triggering tsunami warnings in several countries and causing people to flee into the street. Buildings swayed and lights went out in Mexico City, some 650 miles from the epicenter.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto called it the strongest quake the country has seen in a century. The U.S. Geological Survey measured it at 8.1 magnitude, though initial reports said 8.2.
Pena Nieto said in a series of tweets on Friday that more than 200 people had been injured and more than 260 aftershocks had hit the country since the initial quake, the most powerful of which was measured at magnitude 6.1.
More than 1.85 million electricity customers had been affected, Pena Nieto said, with nearly 200,000 still facing outages.
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By M.L. NESTEL, J.J. GALLAGHER, DAVID CAPLAN and MARK OSBORNE
Sep 8, 2017, 6:05 PM ET
At least 60 people were killed after a magnitude-8.1 earthquake rocked Mexico late Thursday night, leveling buildings in southern Mexico, triggering tsunami warnings in several countries and causing people to flee into the street. Buildings swayed and lights went out in Mexico City, some 650 miles from the epicenter.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto called it the strongest quake the country has seen in a century. The U.S. Geological Survey measured it at 8.1 magnitude, though initial reports said 8.2.
Pena Nieto said in a series of tweets on Friday that more than 200 people had been injured and more than 260 aftershocks had hit the country since the initial quake, the most powerful of which was measured at magnitude 6.1.
More than 1.85 million electricity customers had been affected, Pena Nieto said, with nearly 200,000 still facing outages.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/magnitude-earthquake-rocks-southern-mexico-felt-capital/story?id=49695667