Experts say the chance of finding survivors decreases three days after an earthquake, but rescuers have vowed to press on. Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said the city has received 11,200 requests for property inspections and has completed almost 70% of them, including at nearly 550 schools. It was centered about 325 miles southeast of Mexico City in the state of Oaxaca, the region that took the brunt of an earlier, magnitude 8.1 quake on Sept. 7. Though Saturday morning’s aftershock did not cause major new structural damage in Mexico City, it claimed at least two lives in the capital. Ground zero where the search continues for victims buried under the rubble along Calle Alvaro Obregon in La Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City.
Source: Los Angeles Times September 24, 2017 18:22 UTC