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Subscribe to RSSUpdated at 1 a.m. ET: The Associated Press reports that Humberto Calvo, undersecretary of Guerrero's Civil Protection agency, said a third person died in the small town of Ixcateopan.
Updated at 11:20 p.m. ET: Telemundo reports that at least two people were killed: an 11-year-old child died when the roof of a taqueria collapsed in Iguala, near the epicenter, and a driver was killed and two women injured when a boulder was dislodged by the quake and hit their Ford truck on the Sol highway between Acapulco and Mexico City.
Earlier story:
ACAPULCO, Mexico -- A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck the region north of Acapulco on Saturday night, and people in Mexico City fled into the streets.
The epicenter was about 82 miles north of Acapulco in the southwestern state of Guerrero and about 40 miles deep, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake was intially reported as a 6.8 but downgraded to 6.5.
Telemundo reported that at least two people were killed..
In Acapulco, hundreds of anxious tourists congregated in the streets after fleeing rocking buildings. Authorities said they had found no structural damage and had no reports of injuries in the Pacific resort.
Buildings in Mexico City, about 100 miles northeast of the epicenter, swayed during the quake, but there were no immediate reports of major damage there.
People in one part of the capital's upscale Condesa neighborhood ran out of their houses and gathered in the streets, hugging each other while some shook and began to cry. On one street, a group of women joined hands in a circle, closed their eyes and began to pray.
"Please God, help us and let everything be OK," said one. "It's OK. It's OK. Everything is OK."
Reuters reporters in Mexico City said the earthquake seemed to go on for an unusually long period.
"I was dreadfully afraid, I thought it was never going to end," said Laura Gonzalez, who was drinking in a bar in the capital when the quake struck.
Power was knocked out in parts of the capital, but Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said water services, the subway and the airport were working normally.
Parts of Mexico City rest on the shaky soil of a former lake bed, which tends to magnify the effect of earthquakes. An 8.1-magnitude quake in 1985 killed as many as 10,000 people in the city.
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Well as bad as it may sound this is probably a relief. No not to the people of Mexico or any decent people anywhere for that matter; but for the chances of the big one happening any time soon it is. That is unless and of course this was more of a precursor than a pressure release.
I was at a party in Acapulco ... growing up in California ... the shake wasn't that bad really. Didn't even get out of my chair!
For people who didn't grow up in earthquake country ... a little shaking of the ground scares the shiiit out of them!
'm glad my neighbors to the south didn't suffer major calamity. We in Texas don't get earthquakes on a regular basis so I can understand their fear.
newscover,
While I was in the service I was stationed in California for three years, depending on your point of view I was fortunate enough not to have experienced any tremors... So I think that if I had been there for 6.5 quake I could well have been one the ones with the sheet scared out of me... then again in a little over 20 years of military service I did experience all kinds of other things... so who knows???
lonereb,
Yea I know what you mean... I now live the Dallas Texas area... and even the ones we've had here recently went unfelt in my particular vicinity
Late, but 2 deleted, horsepucky derailing about 'boarder jumpers'. Write your own article. You're suspended for a day for violating #4 of the Code of Honor.
Horsepucky, we could only wish.
this is either very good or wait a few days or months and all of a sudden we might see a 7.9 or potentially higher. it always seems that right when we havent had a major disaster in a while and earthquake starts it, then we have a whole bunch. if it happenes hopefully it will creat a 400 feet deep fisure in the ground running right along the border officially spliting us.
We need a good shaker up here so we can start rebuilding something without all this political bickering. A big 9.0 something that creates mass devastation in the big city. Once again the Mexicans have all the luck. Don't start whining about all the people that will suffer, there's to many people on the planet as it is.
I'm sorry that you feel that way maybe the people in Mexico feel you're one of the too many people since it is American hunger for drugs that created the cartels. Which are now tearing their country apart.
holy poo doo really nice people on this page..........wow
I agree with you, david. I will read a little more, but it doesn't look like it is worth my time.
oh noes the world is ending!! bibles and end times and such /drama
bunch of haters, you should clean up your own house ,before talking crap about other country's, get a life.
LOL... nothing funnier than me pissin off a poster known as: PANCHO-EL GRANDE lMFAO.. that made my night.
Pancho el grande, vote for Pedro, los 3 Garcias, don't matter, takes a lot more than an ignorant person to piss me off, and obviously you don't have what it takes, i just love how people jump to post senseless comments. try again.
p.s it was meant to be funny. thank you.
The article said that the water was working normal in Mexico City....I did think that was a kind of funny statement for that official to make....Considering what " Normal " is for the water in Ole Mexico....Just Sayin'....I have got along with the native Meso-Americans that I know and respect them for their honor and work ethic....That is what people are from there....These people are not Spanish they just speak a form of it....They are natives in this hemi-sphere,they sure have been here alot longer than my family that has been here prior to !700 and I beleive they should be allowed to move across that border as they please and certainly shouldn't have to risk their lives sneaking across.....The nerve of the angry old white people in this country....
horsepucky (I'm assuming it's an old familial name) and dpy1990 (perhaps referring to your birth year),
I am sorry that the Great Recession hasn't yet swallowed you up and spit you out. Perhaps it hasn't because you would give it indigestion.
Pillocks.....
I'll wait while you look it up.
Another arrogant, self-righteous, impatient jerk!!
Good girl, Molly, you must have a dictionary.
Now you need a thesaurus, you're repeating yourself.
Mean people suck.
the end is near soon.
To horsepucky hope when time comes to work in the fields you would be the first volunteer............
Hey, I cannot believe the type of trash I just read!
The world is in a crisis ALL OVER.
The earthquake zone extends all the way up the west coast, too.
There is one due in Seattle, WA. anytime.
I am glad there was not much damage for Acalpoco. (a world wide tourist area, that we all enjoy!)
if the fact that i live in the u.s. my ancestry goes back to the 1600s on this land, and im totally against this illegal invasion of my country offends you, two words. GET OUT.
Horsepucky- Papers please, I just read your a native American, but one with a very big chip on his shoulder. I feel sorry for you.
again,horsepucky, this is a country with all sorts of people living in it so if you don't like THAT then YOU should get out.
Horsepucky, You want to talk family ancestry? Ok! Let's go there! My family also goes back to the 1600s. One of my Scotish clansmen pre-dates Columbus by some 40 years and is buried in what is now New England. I have 5 different grandmothers from different family lines that was orphaned on "The Trail of Tears". They were raised by white settlers. I have 4 family homestead land grants signed by 3 U.S. Presidents. The earliest by John Quicny Adams dating 1824. I have war records from family members who have faught in ever war this country has ever thought about fighting in. I come from the first wave of immigrants that came over 1000s of years ago. I come from the 2nd wave of immigrants that came over from Europe 100s of years ago. I am a product of this country! So please! Before you making yourself a bigger fool than you already have, educate yourself or shut up!
Well....I guess if we're going into peoples pedigree, I'll throw mine in mix. My ancestors came to New World in 1621 on The Fortune. That and $1.50 will buy a cup of coffee...maybe.
amylee why dont you shut up, everyone always gets butt hurt over tough issues, my point was about illegal alliens, i dont particularly want mexicans to drown and die even tho i can see how it came off that way, however we are facing a serious and ligitimate problem with immagration...... i come from the seven feather band of natives trace it back we predate 1600. non european... hunter gatherer. relax.
horsepucly (the name really describes you and your atitude; im sorry for your ancestors and your future generation), we Latinos, Hispanics, Mexicans, illegals, whatever you wish to call us, have been here longer than you white crackheads. the Mayans, Aztecs, Incas, etc. were here thousands of years before any white man set foot in America. we didnt kick you out when your ancestors ILLEGALLY came to America, so why should you do it?
Hey latino boy 1290,
What you and your Mexicans don’t understand is that when people immigrated to America before it was known as the United States there were NO IMMIGRATION LAWS. We now have immigration laws in place, and entities like ICE to enforce them Mexicans keep invading this country ILLEGALLY. What part of ILLEGAL do you not comprehend? Mexicans break the law here and we ever so gently escort them back to their country. Would you prefer that we lock them up in our jails? Would you prefer that we shoot them on sight as they travel across the desert at night? You should just shut your mouth and be thankful that you are allowed to live here peacefully. Just because your parents crossed over the boarder like insects and your mother popped you out of her clown-car uterus should NOT entitle you to the right to citizenship in this country. You should be THANKFUL that you are in the USA instead of friendly little holy Mexican cities like Tijuana and Cuidad Juarez where people are being killed just because they step outside for fresh air.
If you do not like the USA, you are more than welcome to leave it, you obnoxious ingrate.,
I'm sure horsepucky is one of those ignorant people who don't know the difference between Illegal and legal aliens and who don't understand that most of the people living on the border from Texas to Cali are hispanic natives of this country. Thse people were living here in Texas and the other border states before they were acquired by the US. And for many of them someone who came to the western hemisphere in the 1600's is a newcomer since their families go back to the 1500's. Nacodoches is older than the 1600's.
Hope this was just a relieving-stress 'quake...glad it wasn't a disaster. Feliz Navidad
Laura Gonzales did the right thing....stay in the bar, and keep downing those tequila shots. It will all go away soon. Piss on it...."domme otra!" Feliz Navidad.
nothing like...jingle bells...to get everyone in a good mood...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVWYIxZV6QE&feature=fvst
Really who came to invade first? I wonder if the Native Americans felt the same way when your ancesters did the same thing, and your still here horsepucky........
i am native american LADYLUCI and obviuosly you know nothing about american history, timelines should of been a clue.
well horsepucky since you mentioned that your ancestry goes back to that far I would think that you would atleast be a person in this country with a higher education/career which you don't have, considering you spend your time writing pathetic crap online. Also America is the melting pot of the world with all kinds of races and people living in it so if YOU don't like that, then maybe YOU should get out(:
stephanie, you know nothing of my education, career etc, etc, i have not supported the idea of diversity to the point we can no longer take care of our own from our own.. illigals coming to the united states illegally is huge problem to our economy, safety, housing, criminal activity, oh ya its illegal...... like i said before if this upsets you that im saying this, your part of the problem....
People seem to forget that when people immigrated to America BEFORE IY WAS KNOWN AS AMERICA there were NO IMMIGRATION LAWS. We now have immigration laws in place, and entities like ICE to enforce these laws.
That was then. this is now.
A country with no laws or a country that does not enforce its laws is a country that will crumble. Secure our borders and stop the flood of criminal illegal aliens and do it now.
Maybe it'll take an earthquake to get the politicians to remember it's us that they're supposed to be working for. But then again maybe the mexicans would do the same job that ours do coz they don't pretend to leave them any better off ours just say they might if they think it'll get them in. Maybe they're all really mexicans or just a bunch of mexican wannabes. Ha ha,
Sorry mexico it's not meant to be ethnocentric and insensitive that's an american thing I guess.
Really horsepucky how would i know? I can't see you so I could say the same thing, and as I remember you said your ancesters were from back in the 1600's, and Im assuming Native Americans have being here long before...ha
My aunts Chippewa people were definitly here before 1600. horsepucky is one of those who claims Euro ancestry (family came in 1600's) when that is best and only pulls his native American out of the closet when he wants to make a point. Probably doesn't know jack about his native culture. He also hasn't figured out that those poor mexicans he hates are his genetic cousins.
Has there been any mention of aftershocks since this quake occurred?
Nothing on the Mexican news...
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc00073cu.php
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Noting about the " latest " so wait and see,,
Earthquakes are a moving experience..
Hope there is no more injury and no further death.
ok an earthquake in mexical....what did it cause about 50 bucks worth damage?...quick call Sean Penn, and all the other Hollywood phonies maybe they can sing some lame ass song and cry out for the U.S.A. to send BILLIONS or dollars...by the way we can't afford, much less it's own government or whatever drug lord is in charge at this moment....so go ahead write them a check Sean and the rest of your socially conscious types...I would if I could, but I need to install a shark tank above my outdoor bar...so maybe next time ...yeh yeh yeh... call me a "hater" I could care less...America first
Actually horsepucky, its you're the man.
Early Sunday morning, and we have to go to grammar class.
hadenough-1745167
really you are ignorant no wonder usa is coming down, because people like you
stephanie, you know nothing of my education, career etc, etc, i have not supported the idea of diversity to the
I know who you are, you are working at walmart cleaning the toilets, that is your nickname