Death toll now at 90 as aftershocks rattle southern Mexico

[Stuart G]

Source: NY Daily News/AP

JUCHITAN, Mexico (AP) Life for many has moved outdoors in the quake-shocked city of Juchitan, where a third of the homes are reported uninhabitable and repeated aftershocks have scared people away from many structures still standing.

The city on Sunday was littered with rubble from Thursday night's magnitude 8.1 earthquake, which killed at least 90 people across southern Mexico at least three dozen of them in Juchitan itself.

Officials in Oaxaca and Chiapas states said thousands of houses and hundreds of schools had been damaged or destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people were reported to be without water service.

Many people continued to sleep outside, fearful of more collapses, as strong aftershocks continued to rattle the town, including a magnitude 5.2 jolt early Sunday.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/news/world/death-toll-90-aftershocks-rattle-southern-mexico-article-1.3482054

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JUCHITAN, Mexico has a population of about 73,000 people. From the top paragraph, we are told that one third of the homes are.. "uninhabitable".. That would mean that over 20,000 people are homeless.." hundreds of thousands of people were reported to be without water service.
... Very sad..

[a la izquierda]

1. You're a good egg to post this, but seriously no body gives a rat's ass.

I am a scholar of Mexican history and the ONLY thing that US Americans care about is the "bad hombres" taking their jobs and whether or not they can go to Cancun or some such tourist place.

[Stuart G]

2. I disagree, there are a number of us who care...Instead of "no body"...use the word "most"

...Now you may be correct, that most U.S. Americans only care about "taking job" or getting to Cancun.....but some of us do care about the people in Mexico. I am particularly saddened about one fact in the OP, approximately 24,000 are homeless in Juchitan....One third of the population..