Hope is high for survivors at the Mexico earthquake as latest information released by Mexico's head of Civil Protection Agency, Luis Felipe Puente, indicates that the presumed number of casualties in the 7.1 magnitude earthquake, could be less.
Mr. Puente revised the number from the earlier reported 248, to 217 casualties.
Official figures revealed that Mexico City recorded about 86 casualties, Morelos, 71 casualties, Puebla, 43 casualties, Edomex, 12 casualties, Guerrero, 4 casualties while Oaxaca recorded the least, with 1 casualty.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto ordered the evacuation of affected hospitals and the transfer of its patients to other medical units; admonished Mexico city residents to avoid travel on streets and avenues so as to allow free movement of emergency personnel and vehicles, he further called for calm as government assess the situation.
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake, described as the "most powerful" since Mexico's 1985 earthquake, struck 37 kilometres from Atlixco, Puebla, southern Mexico on Tuesday, September, 19th, 2017. The earthquake left scores dead including children and adults after an elementary school partially collapsed, left about 15 people dead in a church during mass, brought-down over 40 buildings in Mexico city, and several others across the country, registered over 11 aftershock reaching up to magnitude 4.
Mexican Soldiers, Navy Marines and citizens are among the rescue team as the search for survivor continue.
Shelters have been provided in different locations for displaced persons in Mexico city.
Leaders from across the world, and eminent personalities expressed sympathy and have offered support to Mexico.
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