Mexico: the powerful earthquake in Mexico caused at least 230 deaths

The powerful earthquake that struck central Mexico on Tuesday (September 19th), including its capital, killed at least 230 people. "We have 102 people [deceased] in Mexico City, 69 [in the State of] Morelos, 43 in Puebla, 13 in the State of Mexico, five in Guerrero, one in Oaxaca," the director of the civil protection, Luis Felipe Puente, reviewing some local counts on the rise and others slightly downward.
Like other collapsed buildings in Mexico City where survivors could be found, the site of the Enrique Rebsamen primary and secondary school, at the extreme south of the capital, resembled an ant hill with white, yellow, reds, oranges, greens and blues of the various bodies involved in relief operations. At least 21 students, aged 7 to 13, as well as five adults, were killed. Some 30 children remain missing. So far, eleven children and a mistress have been extracted alive from the rubble.
Several countries, including Israel, Chile and El Salvador, have announced reinforcements to Mexico.

Junction of five tectonic plates

In the streets of Mexico City, dozens of people were awaiting anxieties about news of missing relatives. The damage was concentrated in the south of the city and the trendy districts of Roma and Condesa, known for their bars and restaurants and where many foreigners reside.

There are about forty buildings collapsed in this megalopolis of 20 million inhabitants, according to Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera. At least 40 people were found alive in the debris of two structures, he said, adding another 600 buildings were to be inspected.
The earthquake on Tuesday occurred 32 years to the day after the great earthquake of 1985, which left more than 10,000 dead and remains a national trauma in Mexico. Dozens of aftershocks have been recorded and the authorities call the inhabitants to the utmost caution. This new tragedy strikes a country still suffering from an earthquake of magnitude 8.2 - the most powerful in a century in the country - which killed a hundred people and more than 200 wounded in the south of the country on 7 September.

Located at the junction of five tectonic plates, Mexico is one of the countries in the world with the strongest seismic activity.