Shortly before midnight on 7 September, the 2017 Chiapas earthquake struck off the coast of Chiapas, registered at either 8.1. or 8.2. Juchitán devastated by 8 2 magnitude quake in Mexico - YouTube In Kananga, a commercial building collapsed, one person died, and 20 were injured. 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). The movement is very slow — about three inches a year — and over time stress builds because of friction between the slabs. 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. Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | 499 14th Street, Suite 220 | Oakland, CA 94612 phone: 510-451-0905 | fax: 510-451-5411 | eeri@eeri.org In Oaxaca State, at least 45 people were killed, including the 36 in here in Juchitán, a provincial city of 100,000. “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. Of all the towns in Oaxaca, Juchitán de Zaragoza, the second largest city … 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. 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. 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. Quetzaltenango, Guatemala’s second-largest city, which was beginning to recover from a tremor in June, had more damage to its historic center. The earthquake was more powerful than the 1985 tremor which hit close to Mexico City and caused thousands of deaths. Cracks in the sand on a beach near La Crucecita taken two hours after 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. ((G e nr al I f om ti A dv eb u!!! This releases vast amounts of energy and, if the slip occurs under the ocean, can move a lot of water suddenly, causing a tsunami. Mexico earthquake: Photos of flattened town of Juchitan de Zaragoza in Oaxaca state. ! Local officials appealed to state and federal governments for aid to help with the recovery. A deadly magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck the southern coast of Mexico on 7 September, killing dozens of people and injuring at least 200. Nobody knew if he was still alive. It was the strongest on record since 1932, almost one hundred years ago. “A total disaster,” the mayor, Gloria Sánchez López, declared in a telephone interview in which she appealed for help. All have been severely affected by the earthquake. JUCHITÁN DE ZARAGOZA, Mexico — Thousands of homes in this city were severely damaged. “It’s a truly critical situation,” Óscar Cruz López, the city’s municipal secretary, said Friday. ! Those whose homes were totally destroyed will, over about six months, receive up to $120,000 MXN (± $6,700 USD). Several of us saw its affects first-hand over the last couple days. 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. Shortly before midnight on 7 September, the 2017 Chiapas earthquake struck off the coast of Chiapas, registered at either 8.1. or 8.2. 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. “A lot of people have lost everything, and it just breaks your heart,” she added, bursting into tears. 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. ! Those quakes each released about 30 times as much energy as the one in Mexico. In Ormoc City, three people died and around 100 were injured. (Photo by Meghan Dhaliwal for Direct Relief) In municipalities such as Juchitán de Zaragoza, catastrophic damage struck half of the Municipal Palace, nearly all of the main market, nearly every religious structure, at least 30 percent of residential structures, and 90 percent of the city’s largest hospital. Juchitán de Z ar goz S E- M XICO Earthquake - Situation as of 09/09/2017 R D at Sources Legend C ri sI nf om at "S Bu il d ngGra!(! Juchitán (ho͞ochētän`) or Juchitán de Zaragoza (ho͞ochētän` thā särägō`sä), town (1990 pop. 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. 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. Our gardener, who has family in Juchitán, reported that the government is issuing affected families cards with funds that they can draw on. 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. The historic earthquake was said to have been the strongest in Mexico in a century. 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. On September 8, 2017, a Thursday evening, an 8.1 magnitude earthquake struck just off the coast of Chiapas and Oaxaca. 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. By Lizzie Wade Sep. 11, 2017 , 5:45 PM. 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. 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 Gabriela's relationship to the people of Juchitán runs deep. 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. 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! But … 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. By Paulina Villegas, Elisabeth Malkin and Kirk Semple Sept. 8, 2017 JUCHITÁN DE ZARAGOZA, Mexico — Thousands of homes in this city were severely damaged. By Daniel Hernandez • Oct 30, 2017. “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. Juchitán de Zaragoza, on the Oaxacan coast, was one of the cities most damaged by the earthquake. 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. 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 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. The hospital’s primary storage facility collapsed in the first earthquake, taking a month’s worth of medications with it. Today, Mexico’s construction laws are considered as strict as those in the United States or Japan. The homes of three of … 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. all. 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. Earthquake list. (G e nr al I f om ti P oi n tf I er s 4 T r a nsp oti P hysiograp M p I nf i lm R el v an t drco s Des tro y d Highly dam g e Moderately Negligible li gh d am ge Total f ct Total in AOI Road blocks Es tim a ed pou ln 12 078 6 Residential No. “You can count on us,” President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia said on Twitter. 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. Subduction zones ring the Pacific Ocean and are also found in other regions. People move past a collapsed building in Juchitan, Oaxaca, on September 10, 2017. 21 speakers of Isthmus Zapotec from Juchitán and neighboring towns have worked with her to contribute to the dictionary. She estimated that 20 to 30 percent of the houses in the city were destroyed. Four artists are collaborating with the government of Juchitán, Oaxaca, to paint 100 murals as part of efforts to beautify the earthquake-ravaged municipality. 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. ! “The city,” he said, and then paused. Juchitán de Zaragoza, on the Oaxacan coast, was one of the cities most damaged by the earthquake. A laguna is to the left in the photo and the ocean to the right. And several leaders in Latin America and elsewhere offered assistance to Mexico, including the presidents of Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela and Spain. At some point, the strain becomes so great that the rock breaks and slips along a fault. 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. In Guatemala, the military was out Friday morning assessing the damage, found mainly in the western part of the country. Families whose homes are salvageable receive $20,000 MXN (± $1,000 USD). Pedro Pardo/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. 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. The 2017 Leyte earthquake caused power interruption in Jaro and Tacloban City in Leyte. “It’s as if it had been bombed.”. They are responsible for the world’s largest earthquakes and most devastating tsunamis. ( !(!(! Che Neya died in March 2013. 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. By early afternoon, the efforts had mostly turned from rescues to a cleanup operation, though the municipal secretary, Mr. Cruz, said that workers were still trying to claw through the mounds of debris left by the collapse of the city hall to reach one last victim, a police officer. In Union Hidalgo, just to the east of Juchitán, the mayor reported that about 500 houses had been destroyed. The main hospital here was so devastated that staff members evacuated patients to an empty lot and worked by the light of their cellphones. 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. ! Mexico is situated near the colliding boundaries of several sections of the earth’s crust. Colombian photographer Andres Millan shot a community whose homes were destroyed by the 2017 earthquake in Mexico, using otherworldly lighting inspired by police lights. Mexico’s churches took a major hit in the September earthquake. Residents of Mexico City gathered outdoors after an earthquake struck off the Pacific Coast, about 450 miles away, late Thursday. Half … The quake was felt in places as far apart as Sorsogon in Luzon and Surigao del Norte in Mindanao. President Enrique Peña Nieto flew to the region on Friday afternoon to assess the damage. Unusual Mexico earthquake may have relieved stress in seismic gap. 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. After the 1985 disaster, construction codes were reviewed and stiffened. 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 … Juchitán de Zaragoza Juchitán de Zaragoza earthquake earthquake Juchitán de Zaragoza 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. Mexico Earthquake, Strongest in a Century, Kills Dozens. By Paulina Villegas, Elisabeth Malkin and Kirk Semple. October 20, 2017 October 30, 2017 Devastation, love and new beginnings. “It’s impossible to resolve this catastrophe, to respond to something of this magnitude, by ourselves,” Mr. Cruz said. Patients in a clinic in Puebla, Mexico, were taken outside after the quake. Daniel Hernandez. Reports of damage elsewhere in the region continued to emerge throughout the afternoon. 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. “Don’t leave us alone.”. Half of the 19th-century city hall, with its 30 arches, collapsed. “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. In the rel… “This felt as strong and as bad.”. “Now we will do what us Mexicans do so well: Take the bitter taste of this night and move on,” he added. By the time the earthquake’s tremors finally faded, at least 36 people in Juchitán de Zaragoza were dead. 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. 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 ! Chiapas officials said that more than 400 houses had been destroyed and about 1,700 others damaged. Schools in at least 10 Mexican states and in Mexico City were closed on Friday as the president sought to determine the toll nationwide. The historic earthquake was said to have been the strongest in Mexico in a century. In Huehuetenango, bricks and glass were strewn on the ground as walls in the city collapsed. 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