Mexico City – Mexican President: Mexico Quake Damage Could Surpass $2 Billion

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    A members of a City youth organization sweeps the front area of a building that collapsed in the last week 7.1 earthquake at the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017. Search teams are still digging through dangerous piles of rubble at sites around the city, hoping against the odds to find survivors after the Sept. 19 quake. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)Mexico – President Enrique Pena Nieto said Wednesday that preliminary accounting of the damage caused by the two big earthquakes that hit Mexico this month could cost upward of $2 billion (381 billion pesos).

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    Pena Nieto stressed that damage assessments were continuing, especially in hard-hit Mexico City. But preliminary estimates put repairing and rebuilding schools in several states and the capital at nearly $750 million (13.6 billion pesos).

    Repairing and rebuilding homes will be $550 million (10 billion pesos). Damage to cultural sites could reach $440 million (8 billion pesos).
    A volunteer caries wood pieces to strengthen a damaged building by the last week's 7.1 earthquake, in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017. Search teams are still digging through dangerous piles of rubble at sites around the city, hoping against the odds to find survivors after the Sept. 19 quake. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
    The government is making direct electronic transfers to victims of a magnitude 8.1 earthquake and aftershocks in Chiapas and Oaxaca to the tune of $356 million (6.5 billion pesos) so they can begin repairing their homes.

    “I hope that in the new year we will be able to have also a new Mexico, rebuilt and in normal conditions,” Pena Nieto said.

    Authorities raised the death toll from last week’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake in central Mexico to 337 on Wednesday.

    National Civil Defense chief Luis Felipe Puente reported on Twitter that the dead included 198 in Mexico City.

    He said there were also 74 in Morelos state, 45 in Puebla state, 13 in the State of Mexico, six in Guerrero state and one in Oaxaca state.

    The Sept. 19 quake collapsed at least 38 buildings in the capital, and search efforts continued at some sites.

    It followed the even stronger earthquake less than two weeks earlier off the country’s southern Pacific coast that especially hit Chiapas and Oaxaca. That one killed nearly 100 people.


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    stamnamefortrump
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    stamnamefortrump
    6 years ago

    I’m pretty sure that first picture features the nimbus2000 – fastest broom available on the market

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    6 years ago

    With all the illegals working here and sending back money to Mexico this amount should be raised in no time