This article was updated on September 20th at 8.00am BST, to reflect a new death toll provided by the Mexican government
FOR the second time in a fortnight a powerful earthquake has inflicted death and destruction on Mexico. The quake that struck in the early afternoon of September 19th was not as strong as the one that hit southern Mexico 12 days before and killed nearly 100 people: its magnitude was 7.1, compared with 8.2 for the earlier quake. But the more recent one was much closer to the country’s megalopolis, Mexico City, part of which is built on the soft soil of a lake bed and is thus prone to seismic shaking. The epicentre was in the state of Puebla, some 125km south-east of the capital.
At least 248 people have died. The country’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, said that 27 buildings in Mexico City have collapsed. One of them was a private school in the southern part of the capital....Continue reading
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