MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials say the death toll from this week’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake in central Mexico has climbed to 305. Civil Defense chief Luis Felipe Puente sent out a tweet on Saturday saying 167 of those deaths were in Mexico City. Morelos state accounted for 73, Puebla for 45, Mexico State for 13,…
T MEXICO CITY (AP) —The U.S. Geological Survey says the new earthquake to strike Mexico had a magnitude of 6.1 and was centered in the southern state of Oaxaca. It initially calculated the magnitude as 6.2. The director of Mexico’s disaster agency says it’s an aftershock of the 8.1 quake that hit on Sept. 7…
By CHRISTINE ARMARIO, Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Jack is a small white dog who lives in Mexico City and has been missing since a magnitude 7.1 earthquake startled both humans and their pets when it struck early Tuesday afternoon. “I got lost in the earthquake!!!” a sign with his picture taped to a tree…
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexican authorities have raised the death toll from Tuesday’s earthquake to 286, with more than half of them in the capital. National Civil Protection chief Luis Felipe Puente says 148 people are confirmed dead in Mexico City. He reports in a tweet sent Friday that there were also 73 deaths in…
CUSHING, Okla. (AP) – State regulators in Oklahoma say normal operations have resumed at the Cushing oil storage terminal after a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck Sunday night. Oklahoma Corporation Commission spokesman Matt Skinner says pipelines are operating Monday at the storage terminal, which is one of the world’s key oil hubs. Cushing is located about…
CUSHING, Okla. (AP) – A 5.0-magnitude earthquake centered near one of the world’s key oil hubs has triggered fears the temblor may have damaged key infrastructure and rendered century-old downtown buildings unsafe in the latest Oklahoma town rattled by increasingly strong quakes. Cushing Assistant City Manager Jeremy Frazier told a late-night news conference that a…
AMATRICE, Italy (AP) – The mayor of quake-devastated Amatrice says damage from aftershocks to two crucial access roads threatens to isolate the tiny Italian hilltop town as it struggles to dig out of the rubble. Mayor Sergio Pirozzi said he was working with authorities to find alternative routes to bypass the damaged bridges. He says “we…
PORTOVIEJO, Ecuador (AP) – There are devastating losses along Ecuador’s Pacific Ocean coast, after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck over the weekend. At least 272 people were killed, highways buckled and homes and buildings were flattened. President Rafael Correa says Saturday night’s quake was the worst natural disaster to hit Ecuador since a 1949 earthquake…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal scientists say the chance of damaging earthquakes hitting east of the Rockies has increased significantly, much of it a man-made byproduct of drilling for energy. Oklahoma now has a 1 in 8 chance of damaging quakes in 2016, surpassing California as the state with the highest probability. In a first-of-its-kind effort,…