On the anniversary of a fatal 1985 earthquake, Mexico suffered a 7.1-magnitude tremor on Tuesday causing damage to buildings, knocking out power and at least four people were reported dead, The Washington Post reported.
A couple of hours after a siren signaled an annual earthquake drill, the ground began to tremble, walls buckled and citizens began running into the streets, the report said. There were reports of fires, gas leaks and people potentially trapped under debris in Mexico City.
The local radio in the city of Cuernavaca — which is about 35 miles south of the Mexican capital — also announced people were trapped under destroyed buildings, according to Reuters.
The extent of the damage and the amount of causalities were not immediately known, the report said. According to local media reports, Gov. Alfredo del Mazo said there is at least two people killed in the state of Mexico, surrounding the capital. A civil protection representative Fernando Clemente said two others were killed in the central state of Puebla after a school collapsed, Reuters reported.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the epicenter of the earthquake was 76 miles southeast of Mexico City close by the town of Raboso in Puebla. The quake occurred at 1:14 p.m. local time.
Photos posted on social media depict some multistory buildings in the capital completely collapsed, the report said. Windows were destroyed in some apartments and cars were nearly buried under rubble.
Puebla Gov. Tony Gali said in a tweet, structures were impaired and classes were halted while officials examine the damages.
In the southern Mexico City neighborhood of Coyoacan, the structures of colonial-era buildings were cracked and caved in with some completely demolished, the report said. Citizens were embracing each other and crying in the streets. In the store of Barricas Don Tiburcio, shelves carrying food collapsed and wine bottles were shattered on the ground, the report said.
“This is the worst one I have ever felt,” shopkeeper Beatriz Aguilar Bustamante said. “I don’t know if I will have a house when I go home.”
— WN.com, Jubilee Baez
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