Mexico: Over 200 people killed in deadliest quake since 1985

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The 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck 76 miles southeast of the earthquake-prone capital at 1:14 p.m, according to the U.S. Geological Survey and came on the 32nd anniversary of the infamous 1985 quake that killed thousands.

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By Joshua Partlow | September 20, 2017

Mexico City residents worked through the night into the early hours of the morning Wednesday, digging through immense piles of pancaked rubble that had once been high rise buildings searching for survivors of a devastating earthquake that killed more than 200 people across central Mexico — more than half in the capital.

They worked in the dark and often with their bare hands, with power out across 40 percent of this city of 20 million and rescue and medical services stretched to their limit.

Volunteers, medics and Marines worked side by side to clear away the chunks of concrete in the dusty air. Everywhere in the city, they formed lines to pass along containers filled with rubble and dump them into waiting trucks.

Cries of “silence” punctuated the work as people listened in hope for the sounds of survivors under the wreckage. At least 44 buildings collapsed or partly collapsed in Mexico City alone, according to Mayor Miguel Ángel Mancera.

The 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck 76 miles southeast of the earthquake-prone capital at 1:14 p.m, according to the U.S. Geological Survey and came on the 32nd anniversary of the infamous 1985 quake that killed thousands.

The head of Mexico’s civil protection agency, Luis Felipe Puente, put the toll at 217, revising it down from earlier estimates.

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