Getty Images MEXICO CITY — As many as 360 buildings and homes are in danger of collapse or with major damage in Mexico City nearly a week after a magnitude-7.1 earthquake collapsed 38 structures. The risk of delayed collapse is real: … Read More
The search continues Sunday for victims buried under the rubble of an office building along Avenida Alvaro Obregon in Mexico City’s Roma district. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) Maria de Jesus, 35, has two legs in casts, deep scrapes … Read More
AT LEAST 237 people have been killed after a huge 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocked central Mexico, causing hundreds of buildings to collapse in the capital, Mexico City. The quake struck at 1.15pm local time (7.15pm BST) and of the 217 … Read More
MEXICO CITY — A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway sickeningly in the capital on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage. National Civil Protection chief Luis Felipe Puente tweeted that there … Read More
The earthquake was centred on the narrow sliver of British Columbia, which separates Southeast Alaska and the Yukon. A Magnitude 5.1 earthquake shook Alaska about 135 miles (217 kilometres) northwest of the state’s capital city Juneau. Coincidentally, the City and … Read More
The death toll from Mexico’s 8.1 magnitude earthquake rose to 96 on Monday as more victims were confirmed in the hard-hit southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas and residents worked to repair shattered homes and small businesses. The Foreign Relations … Read More
President Enrique Peña Nieto says government will help with reconstruction after most powerful quake in a century The Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, has declared three days of national mourning after the strongest earthquake to hit the country in a … Read More
The death toll from the most powerful earthquake to hit Mexico in 100 years kept climbing Friday as rescue crews searched through the ruins of collapsed buildings in the coastal areas closest to the epicenter. As of Friday evening, the … Read More