7.5 magnitude earthquake rocks Mexico

[Right_in_Virginia]

7.5 magnitude earthquake rocks Mexico
ABC News, Feb 16, 2018/6:49 P.M., Emily Shapiro

 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck near Pinotepa de Don Luis, Mexico, south of Mexico City, this evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Video on social media showed buildings shaking in Mexico City.

Additional information was not immediately available.


http://abcnews.go.com/International/75-magnitude-earthquake-rocks-mexico/story?id=53154547

[Suppressed]

Downgraded to 7.2 moment magnitude, and the Mercalli intensity seems very low, with minor damage and evidently no deaths.

[TomSea]

13 Killed in Helicopter Crash in Mexico After Quake
By Associated Press 11:57 AM EST

(MEXICO CITY) — A military helicopter carrying officials assessing damage from a powerful earthquake crashed Friday in southern Mexico, killing 13 people and injuring 15, all of them on the ground.

The Oaxaca state prosecutor’s office said in a statement that five women, four men and three children were killed at the crash site and another person died later at the hospital.

A state government official who was not authorized to be quoted by name said the chopper crashed into a group of people who had been spending the night in an open field after a powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit the area. Aftershocks had caused people to flee their homes for fear they would collapse.

Read more at: http://time.com/5164384/helicopter-crash-mexico/

Those in the helicopter, government officials survived,  the 13 who were killed were on the ground.

Per the story, it landed and that is when it lost control.

[TomSea]

7.2 is still going to be horrific but I guess they are better prepared than they were in the past.