A severe earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday, provoking panic as it damaged hundreds of buildings and caused houses in the capital to hop like "Trampoline."
Office workers fled to the streets if 7.4 size shook Quake Mexico City for more than a minute. Phone lines went, buildings were evacuated, Traffic snarled and trade had the Exchange early.
At least 11 people were injured, the Interior Ministry said.
The quake strongest in the Southwestern State of Guerrero, where around 800 houses were damaged, officials said. The Governor of the State of Angel Aguirre said he reports of the houses be demolished, although the public authorities could not confirm.
The tremor was one of the strongest, the thousands in Mexico City hit the country since the devastating 8.1 earthquake of 1985, killed.
Mexico's Interior Ministry said that the country would have been registered on highest alert for the next 24 hours after 18 aftershocks to the quake. Some were above a size 5.
However, no deaths were reported, on Tuesday and there were no major disruptions to air travel or oil installations. But many residents fear and temporary power 2.5 million users in the capital cut off.
Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, said some tracks from the u-Bahn system moved due to tremor during leaks at three aqueducts feeding of the eastern part of the capital would hundreds of thousands of homes without water for at least one day leave.
Martha Suarez, said an Argentine life in Mexico City Roma neighborhood she something similar never knew. "My TV fell down;" The building felt like it on a trampoline. This was like no other I have experienced, ", said Suarez, keeps her small dog in the vicinity."
Scores of houses damaged were in Ometepec, a town near the epicenter of the quake in the State of Guerrero, will the popular Pacific Beach Resort Acapulco.
In the neighboring Oaxaca, 68 mud brick houses were damaged and at least five people were injured, one of them seriously, in the area around the city of Pinotepa Nacional, close to the Pacific coast, said local emergency and roadside assistance.
Some buildings in the capital, trendy district were cracked by Condesa drove by the earthquake, and inhabitants of buildings with small children and dogs in the arms.
"I swear that I never feel one so much, I thought that the building to collapse," said Sebastian Herrera, 42, a businessman from Mexico City District 1985 hit hard.
Television images showed part of a bridge fell on a vehicle on the outskirts of Mexico town. Mayor Ebrard said no one was injured and helicopter of flyover showed that there were no signs of major damage in the capital.
President Felipe Calder?n said there also were no reports of serious damage, experts said that the impact of search not heavy.
Disaster, the modeling of the company EQECAT, whose Software is used by insurers to predict risk by natural disasters that insured losses from the earthquake estimated at less than 100 million $. [See also the following articles by AIR worldwide].
FELT IN GUATEMALA
Fear gripped many of the locals in the town of Mexico, when the quake hit.
Caroline toilet donkey, a German Executive working in close by Las Lomas, said that a rush was when people started fleeing on the eighth floor of their building.
"At some point, we and everyone started pushing." A large man had fallen down and stumbled upon (on the stairs). "And since he was very big, she could him stand up so everybody went about it won't help", she said.
Mexico-City Airport was functioning properly and a few flights in the United States were shut down temporarily, a spokesman said.
State oil company Pemex said everything, what its facilities on the Pacific coast, normal largest 330,000 barrels per day refinery including the country's capacity of Salina Cruz.
The US Geological Survey said the earthquake size 7.4 and aftershocks was next, while in the afternoon.
In Acapulco, schools were evacuated and some parents pick up their children crashed, but it seemed no major damage, hotels and other buildings.
To confirm the White House, which has rejected reports that President Barack Obama daughter Malia was holiday in Mexico, said, was the 13-year old safe.
So far, the quake was felt like Guatemala City.
A spokesman for Mexico City health authorities said that hospitals and clinics were usually active, although some patients from damaged buildings were evacuated.
(Additional reporting by Patrick Rucker, MICA Rosenberg and Ioan Grillo in Mexico City, Luis Enrique Martinez in Acapulco and Ben Berkowitz in Boston;) (Editing by Kieran Murray)
Office workers fled to the streets if 7.4 size shook Quake Mexico City for more than a minute. Phone lines went, buildings were evacuated, Traffic snarled and trade had the Exchange early.
At least 11 people were injured, the Interior Ministry said.
The quake strongest in the Southwestern State of Guerrero, where around 800 houses were damaged, officials said. The Governor of the State of Angel Aguirre said he reports of the houses be demolished, although the public authorities could not confirm.
The tremor was one of the strongest, the thousands in Mexico City hit the country since the devastating 8.1 earthquake of 1985, killed.
Mexico's Interior Ministry said that the country would have been registered on highest alert for the next 24 hours after 18 aftershocks to the quake. Some were above a size 5.
However, no deaths were reported, on Tuesday and there were no major disruptions to air travel or oil installations. But many residents fear and temporary power 2.5 million users in the capital cut off.
Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, said some tracks from the u-Bahn system moved due to tremor during leaks at three aqueducts feeding of the eastern part of the capital would hundreds of thousands of homes without water for at least one day leave.
Martha Suarez, said an Argentine life in Mexico City Roma neighborhood she something similar never knew. "My TV fell down;" The building felt like it on a trampoline. This was like no other I have experienced, ", said Suarez, keeps her small dog in the vicinity."
Scores of houses damaged were in Ometepec, a town near the epicenter of the quake in the State of Guerrero, will the popular Pacific Beach Resort Acapulco.
In the neighboring Oaxaca, 68 mud brick houses were damaged and at least five people were injured, one of them seriously, in the area around the city of Pinotepa Nacional, close to the Pacific coast, said local emergency and roadside assistance.
Some buildings in the capital, trendy district were cracked by Condesa drove by the earthquake, and inhabitants of buildings with small children and dogs in the arms.
"I swear that I never feel one so much, I thought that the building to collapse," said Sebastian Herrera, 42, a businessman from Mexico City District 1985 hit hard.
Television images showed part of a bridge fell on a vehicle on the outskirts of Mexico town. Mayor Ebrard said no one was injured and helicopter of flyover showed that there were no signs of major damage in the capital.
President Felipe Calder?n said there also were no reports of serious damage, experts said that the impact of search not heavy.
Disaster, the modeling of the company EQECAT, whose Software is used by insurers to predict risk by natural disasters that insured losses from the earthquake estimated at less than 100 million $. [See also the following articles by AIR worldwide].
FELT IN GUATEMALA
Fear gripped many of the locals in the town of Mexico, when the quake hit.
Caroline toilet donkey, a German Executive working in close by Las Lomas, said that a rush was when people started fleeing on the eighth floor of their building.
"At some point, we and everyone started pushing." A large man had fallen down and stumbled upon (on the stairs). "And since he was very big, she could him stand up so everybody went about it won't help", she said.
Mexico-City Airport was functioning properly and a few flights in the United States were shut down temporarily, a spokesman said.
State oil company Pemex said everything, what its facilities on the Pacific coast, normal largest 330,000 barrels per day refinery including the country's capacity of Salina Cruz.
The US Geological Survey said the earthquake size 7.4 and aftershocks was next, while in the afternoon.
In Acapulco, schools were evacuated and some parents pick up their children crashed, but it seemed no major damage, hotels and other buildings.
To confirm the White House, which has rejected reports that President Barack Obama daughter Malia was holiday in Mexico, said, was the 13-year old safe.
So far, the quake was felt like Guatemala City.
A spokesman for Mexico City health authorities said that hospitals and clinics were usually active, although some patients from damaged buildings were evacuated.
(Additional reporting by Patrick Rucker, MICA Rosenberg and Ioan Grillo in Mexico City, Luis Enrique Martinez in Acapulco and Ben Berkowitz in Boston;) (Editing by Kieran Murray)
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