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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What pool look like during an #Earthquake in #Mexico: 7.4-Magnitude Quake Strikes Central State of #Oaxaca, El Coyul
Earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico pic.twitter.com/exU9UgvWzM
— lollol (@FreshSam5) June 23, 2020
Another amazing video of today’s earthquake in #Mexico. So scary. pic.twitter.com/affrJA5JRL
— Hector Chaparro 🇨🇦🇲🇽 (@Hektorchaparro) June 23, 2020
BREAKING: #Mexico (#Oaxaca) strong 7.4 #earthquakepic.twitter.com/XUpt32DUsP
— Oh boy what a shot (@ohboywhatashot) June 23, 2020
Ground moving during magnitude 7.4 earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico.#earthquake #Mexico #mexicoearthquake pic.twitter.com/zQyFO1S4l4
— Dhaval Khatri DK (@DhavalKhatriDK) June 24, 2020
Video 3 #earthquake #Mexico pic.twitter.com/ggk3Fcgs8v
— Youtube : Open Talk 270 💞 (StayHomeStaySafe) (@rksadhi) June 23, 2020
Video 2
México today!
7.7 scale #Earthquake in #Mexico pic.twitter.com/dPNx4mAMxv— Youtube : Open Talk 270 💞 (StayHomeStaySafe) (@rksadhi) June 23, 2020
