The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A day after Tuesday’s earthquake in Central Mexico, the street in front of the Red Cross clinic in downtown Guadalajara teamed with gesticulating and yelling workers and volunteers, one half a human conveyor belt rapidly transferring donations emptied from a constant stream of cars swiftly backing in and out of the donation point to an army of sorters beneath a massive tent stretching several hundred feet in the opposite direction.
For more than two days, Mexico was kept on tenterhooks by the news that a 12-year-old girl, “Frida Sofía,” had survived the collapse of a section of the Enrique Rébsamen elementary school in Mexico City’s southern Coapa district.
The official death toll from the 8.2 magnitude earthquake that struck off Mexico’s southern coast late September 7 had risen to 98 by this newspaper’s deadline Thursday evening.
Rescue professionals and thousands of volunteers have been working around the clock in a major search and rescue effort to find survivors from the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that wreaked havoc in Mexico City and surrounding states on Tuesday, September 19.
Some 1.5 million people in southern Mexico – principally in the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas – have been affected by the September 7 earthquake.
More than 200 rescue workers have been dispatched from Jalisco to Mexico City to help in the grim task of searching for survivors from Tuesday’s deadly earthquake that toppled hundreds of buildings in the capital and surrounding states.
Jalisco Civil Protection says no damage has been reported in the state following the 8.2 magnitude earthquake that struck off Mexico’s southern coast late Thursday.
While the quake rattled Mexico City, causing people to rush out onto the streets in panic, it was not felt in Guadalajara. Residents of Poncitlán, Ocotlán, Jocotepec, Jamay, La Barca, Atotonilco, Degollado and other parts of Jalisco have reported feeling the tremor.
The decision taken by President Enrique Peña Nieto to expel the North Korean ambassador from Mexico has been applauded by the U.S. Department of State.
The first batch of Mexican firefighters – a large proportion of them from the state of Jalisco – have returned home from British Columbia, Canada after a month-long stint helping to extinguish forest fires in the province.
