Photos of severe damage in #Chiapas #MexicoEarthquake

[L. Coyote]

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[Stuart G]

1. K and R....for exposure..awful.

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[yallerdawg]

3. "Earthquake lights?"

Now, THAT's a new one - and would scare the crap out of ME!

Seen way too many alien invasion movies!

[LeftInTX]

7. New to me too..

Daily Mail has some pics

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4864918/Mysterious-flashes-light-sky-Mexico-earthquake.html

[L. Coyote]

13. Mysterious green flashes light up the sky

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[Judi Lynn]

4. Monstrous. First time to hear (and see) huge earthquakes cause lights in the sky.

We should all be thankful this one was buried beneath the ocean, and didn't happen on shore. Even then it forced upon people a ferocious amount of destruction.

Thank you.

[L. Coyote]

5. Out near the trench and forearc.

http://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2017/09/08/big-earthquake-southwestern-mexico-m8-1/

[malaise]

10. I heard that barking dogs just before the quake saved lots of lives this morning

Animals are amazing

[niyad]

6. k and r--heartsick

[Solly Mack]

8. K&R

[L. Coyote]

9. Earthquake death toll: 32 victims, 8.4-magnitude quake was the strongest ever recorded in MX

http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/earthquake-death-toll-32-victims-in-3-states/

Mexico News Daily | Friday, September 8, 2017

At least 32 people are reported dead in Oaxaca, Chiapas and Tabasco after the 8.4-magnitude earthquake that struck last night at 11:49pm and continued for a minute and a half.

Details remain sketchy this morning but Oaxaca Governor Alejandro Murat Hinojosa said 17 people died in Juchitán in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Other fatalities were in Niltepec, Ixtaltepec, Xadani and Huamelula, he said, bringing the preliminary total to 23.

He said most of the damage appeared to have been in the isthmus region, particularly Juchitán.

Local media were reporting that homes collapsed in the town, leaving residents buried in the debris, and the municipal headquarters were severely damaged. A hotel collapsed in Matías Romero, another town in the isthmus.

........ As of 3:00am, at least 65 aftershocks, ranging from 5.7 to 6.1, were recorded ............

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[L. Coyote]

11. Mexico Citys Earthquake Alert Worked. The Rest of the Country Wasnt So Lucky

https://www.wired.com/story/mexico-city-earthquake-alert/

MEXICO CITY—"Alerta sísmica! Alerta sísmica!" Few things strike as much fear into the hearts of Mexico City residents as the words “seismic alert” blaring from speakers in schools and parks. It means an earthquake is rumbling up from the Pacific coast, and you have 60 to 90 seconds to get someplace safe.

I had just turned out the light to go to sleep when the alarm went off last night at almost midnight. My husband and I heard it from the elementary school next to our apartment building. We both grew up with earthquakes—him in Mexico City, me in Los Angeles—but we still spent the first 10 seconds in disbelief. A false earthquake alarm had gone off the day before, due to human error during maintenance of the system. The few other times I had heard the alarm, the resulting shaking had barely registered in my building. Couldn’t we ignore it and go to sleep?

No. Mexico City is one of the few lucky places to have a public earthquake warning system at all. It was the first system of its kind in the world, up and running just six years after the 1985 earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people in the capital. Mexico City has a built-in geological advantage when it comes to early warning: The subduction zones that produce the quakes are along the Pacific coast, more than 200 miles away from the city. While seismic waves normally would peter out over that distance, here they are amplified by the pile of mud upon which Mexico City is built, the remnants of a large lake drained during the colonial period. That can make for some particularly deadly earthquakes. But it also gives us time to learn that one is on the way.

I scooped up my dog and ran .............

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[L. Coyote]

12. 61 dead and 200 injured.

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