Fifty killed by strong earthquake in Mexico

At least 52 people died in various states because of the earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.1

At least 52 people have died Tuesday in Mexico because of the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that has shaken the center of the country on Tuesday. Some 42 people have died in the state of Morelos, according to local authorities. Another eight people have died in the State of Mexico, as reported by the governor, Alfredo del Mazo, Milenio Television, and two others have died in Puebla, according to the municipal president. At least 27 buildings have collapsed in Mexico City, according to the country's president, Enrique Peña Nieto. The mayor of the Mexican capital has said that there are several people trapped in buildings in flames.

In the capital, the earthquake has been strongly felt. There have been cuts in the electrical service and in the telephone service. Traffic lights do not work in various parts of the city and it is the citizens who are directing the traffic. Civil Protection officials warn the population that there are gas leaks. "Do not smoke! There are gas leaks!" Shouted the rescuers as they ran through the streets in the northern sector of Rome. The buildings that have collapsed in Mexico City are located in different areas, such as the Condesa, Del Valle, Narvarte, Centro, Coyoacán and Xochimilco colonies, among others. Air operations are suspended at the capital's airport. In the city there have been many panic scenes just two hours after the citizens took to the streets of the country in a simulated commemoration of the violent earthquake of 1985 that devastated the capital and left more than 10,000 dead.

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The epicenter of the quake, recorded at 13:14 local time (20.14, Spanish time), has been located 12 kilometers southeast of Axochiapan, in the central state of Morelos, at a depth of 57 kilometers, according to the National Seismological Service. The body has reported through Twitter of a telluric movement of magnitude 7.1, when making an update of a first report in which it had fixed the magnitude at 6.8.

In the central state of Puebla has reported the fall of the towers of the Church of Cholula, according to the agency Efe. The state of Morelos has also reported damages, and Gov. Graco Ramirez has announced the activation of emergency services.

The president of the country, Enrique Peña Nieto, to whom the news surprised him on his way to the State of Oaxaca, flies back to the capital and has informed via Twitter that he has called the National Emergency Committee to assess the situation and coordinate actions.

"I'm dismayed, I can not stop crying, it's the same nightmare as in 1985," Georgina Sánchez, 52, told France Presse in tears in a plaza in Mexico City.

The earthquake on Tuesday also occurs just ten days after another strong earthquake has caused dozens of dead in the same area. The earthquake has been felt more strongly than the one recorded on September 7, of magnitude 8.2, given that the epicenter is located at a lower depth. On September 7, the most intense since 1932 in Mexico, 98 killed in the south of the country: 78 in Oaxaca, 16 in Chiapas and four in Tabasco.