“I didn’t think that it was going to destroy the city like the last time. At least seven people died and two were missing after a magnitude-6.8 earthquake hit the southern Philippines island of Mindanao on Friday. “It lasted a long time, but it wasn’t as strong,” Barreno said.

Gladys Barreno Castro was at work on the 29th floor of a downtown office building in Mexico City, but recognized quickly that the shaking was not as violent this time. The earthquake measured 7.2 on the moment magnitude scale, caused a huge landslide, resulted in over 28 fatalities and left 11 million (equivalent to. The biggest earthquake that has hit Alaska was a 9.2 magnitude giant in March 1964, an interface thrust faulting earthquake that ruptured over several hundred kilometers between Anchorage and the. USGS seismologist Paul Earle said it appeared not to be an aftershock of the 8.2 temblor on Sept. It said the epicenter was 33 miles northeast of Pinotepa in southern Oaxaca state. It measured 6. Geological Survey originally put the magnitude of Friday’s quake at 7.5 but later lowered it to 7.2. The Great Hanshin Earthquake occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST (January 16 at 20:46:53 UTC) in the southern part of Hygo Prefecture, Japan, including the region known as Hanshin. Many buildings left uninhabitable are still awaiting demolition, and people flooded into the streets as the ground seethed Friday. Taiwan 7.2 earthquake updates: At least nine dead, hundreds injured Earthquakes News Al Jazeera. 7 that killed nearly 100 people in Oaxaca and neighboring Chiapas are still fresh, while in Mexico City, wounds from the Sept. HUALIEN, Taiwan, April 4 (Reuters) - When a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwans scenic and largely rural east coast county of Hualien. Alejandro Murat, who were on the helicopter that crashed in Oaxaca, were fine. Alert system same as one which would warn of Chinese attack. After back-to-back crises in the beleaguered country Saturday. It was more powerful than the 2010 quake, which killed more than 220,000 people. Four days after a devastating 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit south-western Haiti, the level of destruction and desperation is becoming increasingly evident, the United Nations said on Wednesday, noting that the death toll has surged to nearly 2,000. President Enrique Pena Nieto said via Twitter that Interior Secretary Alfonso Navarrete and Oaxaca state Gov. The magnitude 7.2 quake severely damaged several cities, burying people in the rubble of collapsed buildings.