Juchitán de Zaragoza, on the Oaxacan coast, was one of the cities most damaged by the earthquake. “We are assessing the damage, which will probably take hours, if not days,” President Peña Nieto said in televised comments to the nation two hours after the quake. Patients in a clinic in Puebla, Mexico, were taken outside after the quake. “This felt as strong and as bad.”. Juchitán devastated by 8 2 magnitude quake in Mexico - YouTube Cracks in the sand on a beach near La Crucecita taken two hours after the earthquake. Juchitán de Z ar goz N E- M XICO Earthquake - Situation as of 09/09/2017 Dat So ur c es L eg nd C r is I nf omat "S Bu il d ngGra! 53,666), Oaxaca state, S Mexico.Located on the Juchitán River in a vast expanse of flat, fertile plain only slightly above sea level, the old town rivals Tehuantepec Tehuantepec, officially Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, town (1990 pop. A deadly magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck the southern coast of Mexico on 7 September, killing dozens of people and injuring at least 200. Today, Mexico’s construction laws are considered as strict as those in the United States or Japan. She estimated that 20 to 30 percent of the houses in the city were destroyed. The small, mostly indigenous town of Juchitán, in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, was the hardest hit by a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake that rumbled through south and central Mexico on Sept. 7.Hundreds of residents in this town of nearly 75,000 in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region, which connects Mexico to Central America, are sleeping outside their damaged homes, in fear of the hundreds of aftershocks.More than 2,000 homes were severely damaged and the historic building housing City Hall collapsed. Strong shaking reached nearby cities, such as La Crucecita, Juchitán, El Espinal and Asunción Ixtaltepec — cities that remained heavily damaged from the magnitude-8.2 Tehuantepec quake in 2017. The historic earthquake was said to be the strongest in a century in México. Juchitán de Zaragoza, being on the Oaxacan coast, was one of the most damaged cities from the earthquake. The quake on Thursday was more powerful than the one in 1985 that flattened or seriously damaged thousands of buildings in Mexico City. Our gardener, who has family in Juchitán, reported that the government is issuing affected families cards with funds that they can draw on. ! So the first earthquake, with has received much less attention, was the monster. “It is a nightmare we weren’t prepared for,” said a member of the City Council, Pamela Teran, in an interview with a local radio station. Chiapas officials said that more than 400 houses had been destroyed and about 1,700 others damaged. “You can count on us,” President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia said on Twitter. By Lizzie Wade Sep. 11, 2017 , 5:45 PM. In Kananga, a commercial building collapsed, one person died, and 20 were injured. The movement is very slow — about three inches a year — and over time stress builds because of friction between the slabs. Mexico’s churches took a major hit in the September earthquake. Quetzaltenango, Guatemala’s second-largest city, which was beginning to recover from a tremor in June, had more damage to its historic center. On September 8, 2017, a Thursday evening, an 8.1 magnitude earthquake struck just off the coast of Chiapas and Oaxaca. On the 7th of September 2017 just before midnight, local time, a magnitude 8.2 quake struck off the Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, 165km west of the state of Chiapas. This releases vast amounts of energy and, if the slip occurs under the ocean, can move a lot of water suddenly, causing a tsunami. ! Pedro Pardo/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. The historic earthquake was said to have been the strongest in Mexico in a century. Mexico’s government issued a tsunami warning off the coast of Oaxaca and Chiapas after Thursday’s quake, but neither state appeared to have been adversely affected by waves. When I heard the news the next day, I sent a text message to my friend Victoria, who is from Juchitán, Oaxaca, one of the hardest-hit areas. Nobody knew if he was still alive. ( !(!(! In addition to immortalizing people and their trades, the objective of this project is to give another color to Juchitán after the September 7 earthquake. In Guatemala, the military was out Friday morning assessing the damage, found mainly in the western part of the country. By Paulina Villegas, Elisabeth Malkin and Kirk Semple Sept. 8, 2017 JUCHITÁN DE ZARAGOZA, Mexico — Thousands of homes in this city were severely damaged. The quake was felt in places as far apart as Sorsogon in Luzon and Surigao del Norte in Mindanao. People move past a collapsed building in Juchitan, Oaxaca, on September 10, 2017. No sooner had the ground stopped shaking than a truly solidary Mexico mobilised in an amazing show of compassion for the victims of the infernal 8.2 magnitude earthquake that struck the south of the republic around midnight last 7th of September. “Now we will do what us Mexicans do so well: Take the bitter taste of this night and move on,” he added. The quake occurred near the Middle America Trench, a zone in the eastern Pacific where one slab of the earth’s crust, called the Cocos Plate, is sliding under another, the North American, in a process called subduction. Four artists are collaborating with the government of Juchitán, Oaxaca, to paint 100 murals as part of efforts to beautify the earthquake-ravaged municipality. Este artículo está disponible en español. “It’s impossible to resolve this catastrophe, to respond to something of this magnitude, by ourselves,” Mr. Cruz said. Che Neya died in March 2013. But … The earthquake, which was felt as far north as Mexico City, more than 300 miles away, had killed at least 61 people across southern Mexico as of Saturday morning. The magnitude-9 earthquake off Japan in 2011, which led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and the magnitude-9.1 quake in Indonesia in 2004, which spawned tsunamis that killed a quarter of a million people around the Indian Ocean, are recent examples. Mexico is also facing the additional threat of Hurricane Katia, which is gathering strength in the Gulf of Mexico and expected to make landfall in Veracruz State early Saturday. While this week’s quake struck nearly 450 miles from the capital, off the coast of Chiapas State, the one in 1985 was much closer to the capital, so the shaking proved much more deadly. In Oaxaca State, at least 45 people were killed, including the 36 in here in Juchitán, a provincial city of 100,000. Residents in Juchitán spent the morning using backhoes and their bare hands to dig through the wreckage of collapsed buildings and pull the injured, and the dead, from the rubble. 4.4 magnitude earthquake 9 km from Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, Mexico 2017-09-12 18:42:04 UTC UTC time: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 18:42 PM All have been severely affected by the earthquake. In Union Hidalgo, just to the east of Juchitán, the mayor reported that about 500 houses had been destroyed. “A total disaster,” the mayor, Gloria Sánchez López, declared in a telephone interview in which she appealed for help. At some point, the strain becomes so great that the rock breaks and slips along a fault. Those quakes each released about 30 times as much energy as the one in Mexico. ((G e nr al I f om ti A dv eb u!!! The 2017 Leyte earthquake caused power interruption in Jaro and Tacloban City in Leyte. The main hospital here was so devastated that staff members evacuated patients to an empty lot and worked by the light of their cellphones. September 8, 2017 at 6:26 p.m. UTC Mexico is still reeling from Thursday's earthquake, which killed at least 32 people and reduced hundreds of buildings to rubble. In the rel… The country was struck by an 8.2-magnitude quake, the strongest in decades, killing at least 58 people and leveling areas in some southern states. JUCHITÁN DE ZARAGOZA, Mexico — Thousands of homes in this city were severely damaged. 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The earthquake, which had a magnitude of 8.2 and struck shortly before midnight on Thursday, was felt by tens of millions of people in Mexico and in Guatemala, where at least one person died as well. In Huehuetenango, bricks and glass were strewn on the ground as walls in the city collapsed. October 20, 2017 October 30, 2017 Devastation, love and new beginnings. Juchitán de Zaragoza, on the Oaxacan coast, was one of the cities most damaged by the earthquake. ! The city seemed to convulse in terrifying waves, making street lamps and the Angel of Independence monument, the capital’s signature landmark, sway like a metronome’s pendulum. Throughout the day Mexicans lined up at emergency collection centers around the country to donate food, water and other supplies for delivery to the earthquake victims. Families whose homes are salvageable receive $20,000 MXN (± $1,000 USD). It was the strongest on record since 1932, almost one hundred years ago. They are responsible for the world’s largest earthquakes and most devastating tsunamis. Shortly before midnight on 7 September, the 2017 Chiapas earthquake struck off the coast of Chiapas, registered at either 8.1 or 8.2. The hospital’s primary storage facility collapsed in the first earthquake, taking a month’s worth of medications with it. Though many Mexicans have grown accustomed to earthquakes, taking them as an immutable fact of life, Thursday’s left an impression on residents of the capital for both its force and duration. Several of us saw its affects first-hand over the last couple days. “It’s as if it had been bombed.”. The historic earthquake was said to have been the strongest in Mexico in a century. 3.0+ 4.0+ Showing quakes magnitude 0.1 or higher (13 quakes): Date and time: Mag Depth: Nearest volcano (distance) Location: Details: Map: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 (GMT) 2020-12-09 02:09:10 (Hora de México) (9 Dec 2020 08:09:10 GMT) 3.7. A Mw 8.2 intraslab earthquake hit the whole Chiapas region and the southern part of the Oaxaca state in Mexico, on September 7, 2017 at 23h49 PM local time (nucleation depth 58 km). Aftershocks continued through the day Friday, unnerving the city’s residents, many of whom spent much of the day out in the street rather than return to their homes, said Juan Antonio García, the director of the Juchitán news website Cortamortaja. Colombian photographer Andres Millan shot a community whose homes were destroyed by the 2017 earthquake in Mexico, using otherworldly lighting inspired by police lights. By Paulina Villegas, Elisabeth Malkin and Kirk Semple. On 7 September 2017, just before midnight, a magnitude 8.1 earthquake hit Mexico’s southern coast, the second strongest earthquake in the country’s history. “It’s a truly critical situation,” Óscar Cruz López, the city’s municipal secretary, said Friday. I was asleep in my hammock at the beach when last Thursday night's earthquake struck in Southern Mexico, so although the shaking was felt in Yucatán, I missed it. Unusual Mexico earthquake may have relieved stress in seismic gap. Mexico earthquake: Photos of flattened town of Juchitan de Zaragoza in Oaxaca state. The windy road over the mountains to the coastal area had been cleared off 30-40 different places, and even on our way back on Friday, we encountered a front-end loader moving a rock fall. The earthquake was more powerful than the 1985 tremor which hit close to Mexico City and caused thousands of deaths. Residents of Mexico City gathered outdoors after an earthquake struck off the Pacific Coast, about 450 miles away, late Thursday. The homes of three of … Over all, the earthquake — the most powerful to hit the country in a century — killed at least 61 people in Mexico, all of them in the southern part of the country that was closer to the quake’s epicenter off the Pacific Coast. Half of the 19th-century city hall, with its 30 arches, collapsed. After the 1985 disaster, construction codes were reviewed and stiffened. President Enrique Peña Nieto flew to the region on Friday afternoon to assess the damage. Shortly before midnight on 7 September, the 2017 Chiapas earthquake struck off the coast of Chiapas, registered at either 8.1. or 8.2. Earthquake list. Those whose homes were totally destroyed will, over about six months, receive up to $120,000 MXN (± $6,700 USD). “The scariest part of it all is that if you are an adult, and you’ve lived in this city your adult life, you remember 1985 very vividly,” said Alberto Briseño, a 58-year-old bar manager. Juchitán de Zaragoza Juchitán de Zaragoza earthquake earthquake Juchitán de Zaragoza By Daniel Hernandez • Oct 30, 2017. Reports of damage elsewhere in the region continued to emerge throughout the afternoon. Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | 499 14th Street, Suite 220 | Oakland, CA 94612 phone: 510-451-0905 | fax: 510-451-5411 | eeri@eeri.org But this time, the megalopolis emerged largely unscathed, with minor structural damage and only two of its nearly nine million people reporting injuries, neither serious, officials said. Subduction zones ring the Pacific Ocean and are also found in other regions. Epicenters and Locations of the Latest Quakes Near Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, Mexico - Before 2017-09-11 14:55:58 UTC Earthquake Track Toggle navigation Today's Earthquakes “The city,” he said, and then paused. Schools in at least 10 Mexican states and in Mexico City were closed on Friday as the president sought to determine the toll nationwide. Of all the towns in Oaxaca, Juchitán de Zaragoza, the second largest city … “Don’t leave us alone.”. LINKS TO AVAILABLE INFORMATIONSeptember 8th, 2017, M 8.1 Earthquake BBC News: Soldiers stood guard after a hotel collapsed in the town of Matias Romero, Oaxaca state BBC News: Parts of the municipal palace in Juchitán were levelled BBC News: Damage in the Mexican city of Oaxaca, about 300km from the epicentre BBC News: The tremor was strong enough to bring down buildings near … Gabriela's relationship to the people of Juchitán runs deep. Mexico Earthquake, Strongest in a Century, Kills Dozens. By the time the earthquake’s tremors finally faded, at least 36 people in Juchitán de Zaragoza were dead. “A lot of people have lost everything, and it just breaks your heart,” she added, bursting into tears. Juchitán (ho͞ochētän`) or Juchitán de Zaragoza (ho͞ochētän` thā särägō`sä), town (1990 pop. 21 speakers of Isthmus Zapotec from Juchitán and neighboring towns have worked with her to contribute to the dictionary. Mexico is situated near the colliding boundaries of several sections of the earth’s crust. In Mexico City, the capital, which still bears the physical and psychological scars of a devastating earthquake in 1985 that killed as many as 10,000 people, alarms sounding over loudspeakers spurred residents to flee into the streets in their pajamas. ! all. And several leaders in Latin America and elsewhere offered assistance to Mexico, including the presidents of Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela and Spain. Local officials appealed to state and federal governments for aid to help with the recovery. Injuries occurred in Juchitán after the collapse of buildings that had been damaged in the 8.1-magnitude earthquake on September 7, according to Civil Protection authorities. ! Half … In Ormoc City, three people died and around 100 were injured. Oaxaca suffered an earthquake of magnitude 8.2 with an epicenter in Chiapas on September 7, 2017 affecting the entire region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. A laguna is to the left in the photo and the ocean to the right. In the southern part of the country, however, at least 12 people died in Chiapas State and four died in neighboring Tabasco, including two children: one when a wall collapsed and the other after a respirator lost power in a hospital, officials said. With the hospital — the region’s main medical center — destroyed, officials converted a grade school into a makeshift clinic and moved the hospital’s patients and the hundreds of injured survivors there. ! Shortly before midnight on 7 September, the 2017 Chiapas earthquake struck off the coast of Chiapas, registered at either 8.1. or 8.2.
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