Six shocking videos show the horror of the huge earthquake in Mexico

Five people were killed

A strong earthquake hit Mexico on Tuesday in the southern state of Oaxaca, almost three years after a tremor in the central state of Puebla killed more than 300 people.

The tremor killed five people and injured five near the earthquake’s epicenter in Oaxaca, a mountainous state known for its coffee, mescal and Spanish colonial architecture.

The U.S. Geological Survey initially said the quake’s magnitude was 7.7. Mexico’s seismological institute put its strength at 7.5, according to Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

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Rockfalls blocked the winding mountain roads between the state capital of Oaxaca City and the coast. A clinic and other buildings in hill villages near the epicenter were severely damaged, images on social media showed.

An Oaxaca state agency that assessed the damages informed governor Alejandro Murat that a 92-year-old man was killed when a fence fell on top of him in the town of San Agustín Amatengo. A 53-year-old worker for PEMEX, the state-owned oil company, died when he fell off a work area at the Antonio Dovalí Jaime Refinery in the municipality of Salina Cruz.

A 26-year-old man in the city of San Francisco Ozolotepec and a 22-year-old woman in the Santa María Huatulco neighborhood of La Crucecita were also killed after the buildings they were in collapsed.

The earthquake also killed a boy – whose age was not released – in San Juan Ozolotepec.

The earthquake caused several injuries, including one person who was treated after a transformer exploded at a state-owned oil refinery in Salina Cruze.

Six videos below encapsulate the terror during the quake.

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