Extremely Dangerous Earthquake In Guerrero, Mexico Took Two Lives With More Than 50 Injured

Disaster Report: Extremely Dangerous Earthquake Stuck Today (December 10 Local Time) In Balsas, Guerrero, Mexico. Heavy Damage To Life And Property Is Expected.

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UPDATE 11/12/2011
The official death toll has lowered to 2 (earlier was 3). More than 50 houses are reported to be damaged. Did you feel it?? Fill this and let others know


UPDATE
Three deaths confirmed (see below for detail)
The earthquake of this magnitude is capable of causing severe damage, although the depth of this temblor lessened its impact. Parts of Mexico City rest on the shaky soil of a former lake bed, which tends to magnify the effect of earthquakes

UPDATE 07:25 UTC
M 2.8 very shallow earthquake recorded in New Mexico @ 10:35 PM local time at (Saturday, December 10, 2011). The epicenter is 36 km W of Raton, New Mexico

UPDATE 07:20 UTC
Mexican President Felipe Calderon (@Felipe Calderon) tweeted three hours ago "Todos los servicios en el DF se reportan funcionando con normalidad. Información por corroborar señala dos personas fallecidas en Guerrero" (All services in the City are reported to function normally. Corroborate information indicates two people killed in Guerrero ; using google translate)

UPDATE 06:58 UTC
Mexican President Felipe Calderon (@Felipe Calderon) tweeted that “No se reportan al momento daños mayores, sin embargo los reportes son preliminares. Si tienen conocimiento de daños por favor infórmenlo.” (No major damage reported at the time, however the reports are preliminary. If you are aware of damage please inform)

UPDATE 06:53 UTC
Officials told the people to keep calm, because this earthquake is at great depth, and denied the risk of high intensity aftershocks, nor the production of a Tsunami.

UPDATE 06:51 UTC
Four earthquakes are recorded in the different part of Mexican Republic after that.
"Otros cuatro sismos ocurrieron en diferentes puntos de la República mexicana: a las 8:00 horas en Salina Cruz Oaxaca con una intensidad de 5.1 grados, a la misma hora en Chetumal, Quintana Roo, de 5.0 grados; en Guaymas, Sonora, 4.0 grados, y en Ozumba, estado de México, de 4.0 grados"

UPDATE 06:46 UTC
Following jornada, it lasted for 47 seconds.
"Tuvo una una duración de 47 segundos, hubo apagones en la zona de Tlatelolco y hasta el momento no se reportan daños; en Guerrero tres personas pierden la vida"

UPDATE 06:35 UTC
The quake interrupted the annual silver festival in the tourist city of Taxco, midway between Acapulco and the capital.

UPDATE 06:32 UTC

Mexico City's mayor, Marcelo Ebrard, reported by Twitter that no major damage had been reported. He said power failed in some parts of the city.

UPDATE 06:27 UTC
Mexico's Interior Department said the quake was felt in parts of nine states. The most damage is in Iguala because the epicenter is very close. The earthquake video aside shows the shaking during the event.

UPDATE 06:24 UTC
Officials said at least three people died, but there were no reports of widespread damage. one man was killed when a house's roof collapsed in Iguala, a second died in the small town of Ixcateopan and the driver of a cargo truck was killed by rocks that fell on the vehicle driving on the toll highway linking Acapulco with Mexico City.

UPDATE 05:58 UTC
EMSC Felt Reports
Cuernavaca: Only that after 30 years living in this area this is the strongest I have experienced due to the fact that we are up on the foothills of the mountains and usually we have very little  movement, except of course the great quake of 1985.
Acapulco: by far the longest and strongest i've felt in acapulco
Coyacán : hear a strong wind before the earthquake,
Mexico City: Probably the second strongest quake i've felt in this area, since 1985.

UPDATE
So far two persons are reported to be dead with 3 houses being collapsed in Guerrero, Mexico

UPDATE

People at University Square being evacuated
after the earthquake source jornada

Following local medias 1 person has been killed in Guerrero, Mexico

UPDATE
Various building are reported to be damaged in Mexico city. power failed in some part of Country.

UPDATE 
Several people are reported to be injured. Some local medias are also reporting death of one person, which is still to be verified.
 
UPDATE
According to USGS, 952000 people will have experienced strong shaking of MMI VI today by this Mexican Quake. People of Cocula, Tepecoacuilco de Trujano, Iguala de la Independencia, Apaxtla de Castrejon, Teloloapan, Tlacotepec will have experienced strong shaking. Among these Iguala de la Independencia is the most populated region with population 112,000.
NOAA mentions, Based on the earthquake magnitude, location and historic tsunami records, a damaging tsunami IS NOT expected along the California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska coasts


UPDATE 
As we mentioned earlier, USGS has updated its data as
M 6.5 @ 64.9 km depth
42 km (26 miles) SW of Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico
56 km (34 miles) ESE of Arcelia, Guerrero, Mexico
62 km (38 miles) NNW of Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico
166 km (103 miles) SSW of MEXICO CITY, D.F., Mexico
 
UPDATE
EMSC mentions different data as
M 6.7 @ 61 km depth
42 km SW Iguala (pop 112,106 ; local time 19:47:26.4 2011-12-10)
32 km S Teloloapan (pop 21,244 ; local time 19:47:26.4 2011-12-10)
13 km SE Apaxtla (pop 7,413 ; local time 19:47:26.4 2011-12-10)

UPDATE
It is felt over vast area far than 100+ radius from epicenter. The data report varies among seismological reporting sites. Chilpancingo Airport of Mexico lies 30 far from epicenter where strong jolt is felt.It will be hurry to say the preliminary data as flashed by USGS will not be updated.
At this time a day, more people are at home and therefore more vulnerable to collapsing residential buildings.

Guerrero Earthquake

M 6.7 earthquake stuck today in Guerrero, Mexico Region @ 64 km depth (local time Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 07:47 PM @ epicenter). The intensity is strong enough to cause heavy damage to life and property. The earthquake epicenter is 62km from the city of Chilpancingo. The nearest populated places are Acatln (19km), Balsas (6km), Cuetzala (10km), Apaxtla (16km). It is a mountainous region with a maximum altitude of 3443 m. Following USGS preliminary data, the epicenter location of this earthquake is
    35 km (22 miles) S (170 degrees) of Teloloapan, Guerrero, Mexico
    43 km (26 miles) NNW (339 degrees) of Chichihualco, Guerrero, Mexico
    45 km (28 miles) SW (219 degrees) of Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico
    133 km (82 miles) N (6 degrees) of Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico

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