A strong new earthquake shook Mexico on Saturday, killing at least one person, toppling already damaged homes and a highway bridge and causing new alarm in a country reeling from two quakes that together have killed over 400 people. CBC | World News
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Mexico struck by new 6.1 earthquake as country recovers from killer quake
A NEW earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale has struck Mexico following a killer quake that struck the country last week killing 295 people. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Tempers fray as search for Mexico earthquake survivors winds down
Tempers frayed in Mexico City on Friday as the search for survivors amid twisted rubble of collapsed buildings began to wind down three days after the country’s most deadly earthquake in a generation CBC | World News
Read More »Rescue crews still finding survivors 4 days after Mexico quake
Survivors are still being pulled from rubble in Mexico City as rescue operations stretch into a fourth day Friday, spurring hope among desperate relatives gathered at the sites of buildings collapsed by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. CBC | World News
Read More »No missing children at collapsed Mexico City school, official says
A Mexican official says there are no missing children at a collapsed Mexico City school where rescuers have been hunting for a girl they believed to be trapped. A navy official says there is evidence of a person who may still alive, but he says it’s probably a school worker. CBC | World News
Read More »Rescuers race to free young girl and others from rubble of Mexico quake
A delicate effort to reach a young girl buried in the rubble of her school stretched into a daylong vigil for Mexico, much of it broadcast across the nation as rescue workers still struggled in rain and darkness early Thursday trying to pick away unstable debris and reach her. CBC | World News
Read More »Soft soil makes Mexico City quake like it was ‘built on jelly’
The soft soil that lines the ancient lake bed that Mexico City is built on amplified the shaking from Tuesday’s earthquake and increased its destructive force, seismologists say. CBC | World News
Read More »Parents consult lists of the living and the dead after earthquake destroys school in Mexico City
“Brutal” day continues as rescuers dig and listen for youngsters trapped in collapsed school in Mexico City. CBC | World News
Read More »Dramatic rescue work in Mexico quake aftermath
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Mexico on Tuesday, collapsing buildings and leaving many dead or injured. The quake has killed at least 225 people, nearly half of them in Mexico City, 32 years to the day after a devastating 1985 quake. CBC | World News
Read More »Mexico quake rescuers search school rubble as death toll hits 225
Desperate rescue workers scrabbled through rubble in a floodlit search on Wednesday for dozens of children feared buried beneath a Mexico City school, one of hundreds of buildings destroyed by the country’s most lethal earthquake in a generation. CBC | World News
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