The death toll from the massive earthquake that struck Mexico on Thursday night has risen to at least 90 after emergency services in the southern state of Oaxaca said late on Saturday there had been 71 confirmed fatalities in the state alone.
‘It’s 71 (dead). Just for Oaxaca,’ said Jesus Gonzalez, a spokesman for the state civil protection authority.
At least 15 people died in the neighboring state of Chiapas, according to local authorities, while another four deaths have also been confirmed in the state of Tabasco to the north.
Rescue workers marks debris in the city of Juchitan, Mexico, on Sunday, three days after an earthquake struck the southern coast
A man wades past a car parked in a flooded street in Vega de Alatorre, Mexico, on Saturday just hours after the hurricane hit
A woman stands in her home after a mudslide sparked by storm Katia killed several people in the neighborhood, in Xalapa
A shocking aerial image taken in Juchitan, state of Oaxaca, shows the damage the 8.2 magnitude earthquake inflicted on Mexico’s Pacific coast
A woman awakes for the day in the back of a pickup truck where she slept with two family members, despite rains during the night
The 8.1 magnitude quake that struck off the coast of Chiapas on Thursday was stronger than a devastating 1985 temblor that flattened swathes of Mexico City and killed thousands.
Relief efforts in the south continued through Saturday, with many of the people worst affected still wary of returning indoors to weakened buildings, fearing they could be brought down by ongoing aftershocks.
Hurricane Katia pummeled the east coast on Saturday, wreaking more havoc across the country. The powerful storm even caused a mudslide in the city of Xalapa.
A local resident walks outside her destroyed home that was toppled during the earthquake
People retrieve their belongings from the ruins of their homes, knocked down by a quake, in Juchitan, Oaxaca
A member of the Mexican Navy stands next to a rescue dog that wears protective mittens to help sift through all the debris and rubble
A marine lifts his search and rescue dog into a truck in Juchitan, Mexico
Women observe the aftermath of the destruction from the earthquake and try to see if they can grab things to salvage
A hat rests over the coffin of German Torres, a victim of the powerful earthquake that hit Mexico’s Pacific coast
Hardest-hit from the earthquake was Juchitan, Oaxaca, where a third of the city’s homes collapsed or were uninhabitable, President Enrique Pena Nieto said late Friday in an interview with the Televisa news network.
In central Juchitan, the remains of brick walls and clay tile roofs cluttered streets as families dragged mattresses on to pavements to spend another anxious night sleeping outdoors.
Members of the ‘Topos’ (Moles) specialized rescue team dug through piles of debris looking for folk’s loved ones and hoping to find some that were still alive.
Soldiers of the Army and Navy also joined in on the search and rescue, hoping to locate the bodies still missing in the wreckage.
Pena Nieto declared three days of national mourning when he first broke numbers on the deaths associated with the earthquake
The epicenter of the earthquake, according to Nieto was 123km southwest of the town of Pijijiapan.
A man carries a crutch as he rides a bicycle in the aftermath of the earthquake at a damaged site in Juchitan
Residents of a zone heavily affected by spend a third night sleeping outside
Mexico’s government is distributing food to jittery survivors who worry about potential aftershocks
In this small plaza, a local organization supported by the government has created a small outdoor shelter, providing mattresses, roofing tarp, and bathroom access to residents afraid to sleep in damaged homes
Relatives of 38-year-old earthquake victim German Torres attend his funeral in Juchitan, Oaxaca state
An excavator moves debris at this damaged site in Juchitan. The earthquake with magnitude of 8.2 and epicenter in the state of Chiapas, hit the south of Mexico on Thursday
Rescue workers have begun to stockpile emergency supplies to give out to residents affected by the earthquake and storm
Soldiers of the Army and Navy continue with the work of people search in the rubble
Rescue workers know as Topos Azteca clear the debris of a building damaged by the earthquake
A hotel split practically in half shows the destruction caused by the earthquake
The 8.1 quake off the southern Pacific coast just before midnight Thursday toppled hundreds of buildings in several states
Hardest-hit was Juchitan, Oaxaca, where a third of the city’s homes collapsed or were uninhabitable, President Enrique Pena Nieto said late Friday in an interview with the Televisa news network
The US Geological Survey said the magnitude of the earthquake late on Thursday was 8.1, but Pena Nieto said on Friday it was 8.2, making it the largest in Mexico in 100 years.
Hurricane Katia was roaring onshore north of Tecolutla in Veracruz state, pelting the region with intense rains and winds on Friday.
Katia, which brought rain to the state of Veracruz when hitting the coast late on Friday, was about 115 miles (185 km) west northwest of the Gulf Coast port of Veracruz early on Saturday morning, the NHC said.
A family grieves over the casket of a loved one who perished in the destruction of the earthquake that killed 90 people
Pena Nieto announced that the earthquake killed 45 people in Oaxaca state, 12 in Chiapas and 4 in Tabasco, and he declared three days of national mourning
In central Juchitan, the remains of brick walls and clay tile roofs cluttered streets as families dragged mattresses on to pavements to spend a second anxious night sleeping outdoors.
Katia was stalling over Mexico’s Sierra Madre mountains and the maximum sustained winds were down to near 40 mph. It was expected to continue to dissipate over the course of Saturday.
Officials in Veracruz said Katia could cause landslides and flooding. They urged people living below hills and slopes to be ready to evacuate.
Gov. Miguel Angel Yunes has already said that two have died in a mudslide since the hurricane hit according to the Washington Post.
Hospital patients had to be evacuated from crumbling hospitals and laid out under the shade of trees
Those that could get to shelter struggled to find places on the hard floors to sleep but a vast amount of people were forced to sleep on mattresses outside
The epicenter of the earthquake, according to Nieto was 123km southwest of the town of Pijijiapan
He also reported that 2,866 people were evacuated from their homes.
Mexico’s national emergency services said this week that Katia was worrying because it is very slow-moving and could dump a lot of rain on areas that have been saturated in recent weeks.
State energy company Pemex has installations in and around the coast of Veracruz but has not reported any disruption to its operations there.
The US Geological Survey said the magnitude of the earthquake late on Thursday was 8.1, but Pena Nieto said on Friday it was 8.2, making it the largest in Mexico in 100 years
Soldiers remove debris from a partly collapsed municipal building felled by a massive earthquake
A third of the Juchitan’s homes were either collasped or made uninhabitable
Hurricane Katia was roaring onshore north of Tecolutla in Veracruz state, pelting the region with intense rains and winds on Friday
Rescuers searched for survivors Friday with sniffer dogs and used heavy machinery at the main square to pull rubble away from city hall, where a missing police officer was believed to be inside.
One rescue included pulling four people, including two children, from the collasped Hotel Del Rio alive even though one woman had died there as well.
The city’s civil defence co-ordinator, Jose Antonio Marin Lopez, said similar searches had been going on all over the area since the Friday night.
Katia, which brought rain to the state of Veracruz when hitting the coast late on Friday, was about 115 miles (185 km) west northwest of the Gulf Coast port of Veracruz early on Saturday morning, the NHC said
Katia now is stalling over Mexico’s Sierra Madre mountains and the maximum sustained winds are now down to near 40 mph. It was expected to continue to dissipate over the course of Saturday
Gov. Miguel Angel Yunes has already said that two have died in a mudslide since the hurricane hit according to the Washington Post
As Katia reached the Mexican Gulf Coast, Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, walloped Cuba’s northern coast.
Millions of Florida residents were ordered to evacuate after the storm killed 21 people in the eastern Caribbean and left catastrophic destruction in its wake. The storm has already killed four people in Florida.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Jose passed Puerto Rico and moved out of the trajectory of the Caribbean.
He also reported that 2,866 people were evacuated from their homes
Workers worked to board up homes and hotels in the area in anticipation of the storm which has since gotten weaker
Mexico’s national emergency services said this week that Katia was worrying because it is very slow-moving and could dump a lot of rain on areas that have been saturated in recent weeks
Hurricane Katia (left) has reached Mexico but Hurricane Irma (center) is headed for Florida after demolishing the Carribean and Hurricane Jose sits in the Atlantic Ocean