Morales said she was in a taxi when the quake struck, and she got out and sat on a sidewalk to try to recover from the scare. She wore a paper face mask and her hands were still dusty from having joined a rescue brigade to clear rubble from a building that fell in a cloud of dust before her eyes, about 15 minutes after the quake. Major earthquake hits Mexico 80 photosĬitizens played a crucial role in rescue efforts, like 26-year-old nutritionist Mariana Morales who was one of many that did everything they could to rescue others. "People here are are used to encountering these types of situations, but this time, I definitely sensed more fear from people," he said on CBSN. When the quake hit, freelance reporter Manuel Rueda was walking outside a bank in the city's financial district when buildings began to shake. Electricity and cellphone service was interrupted in many areas and traffic was snarled as signal lights went dark. Many people remained in the streets for hours, fearful of returning to the structures. Thousands of Mexico City residents fled office buildings and hugged to calm each other along the central Reforma Avenue as alarms blared, and traffic stopped around the Angel of Independence monument. Tony Galil said there were damaged buildings in the city of Cholula, including collapsed church steeples.Įarlier in the day, workplaces across the city held readiness drills on the anniversary of the 1985 quake, a magnitude 8.0 shake, which killed thousands of people and devastated large parts of Mexico City. Rescuers immediately called for silence so that they could listen for others who might be trapped.
19, 2017.Īt one site, reporters saw onlookers cheer as a woman was pulled from the rubble. And "time is against us." This map shows where a deadly 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico on Tue., Sept. "It has to be done very carefully," he said.
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