More than 40 buildings collapsed in Mexico City, including an elementary school where 21 schoolchildren and four adults were killed. Equipped with breathing masks, bicycle helmets, pickaxes and shovels, hundreds of volunteers helped in the rescue work in Mexico City. Using torches, they searched for the survivors in heaps of concrete left from the collapsed buildings. People in Mexico City had just completed an annual earthquake drill two hours before the latest quake struck. The energy company CFE said 3.8 million people were temporarily without electricity, and the telephone network in Mexico City was erratic.

Source: The China Post September 21, 2017 01:18 UTC