By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s City seismic alert system, created to warn inhabitants about earthquakes in time enough for evacuation onto the street, failed twice over the weekend, once due to human error and the other due to technological malfunction. Following a 5.7 magnitude earthquake on he evening of Friday, March 19, the alarm system let out an incorrect warning announcing
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By KYLIE MADRY In a new interview with Mexican daily El Universal, renowned journalist Elena Poniatowska calls out President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), saying he brings the criticism he receives upon himself. “He exposes himself (to attacks) more than any other president I’ve seen,” Poniatowska said in an interview published Wednesday, Oct. 21, “much more than (former Presidents Adolfo)
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Whoever said “lightening never strikes the same place twice” didn’t live in Mexico City. Here, in the capital, it did strike twice — at least, metaphorically, in the form of a devastating earthquake — on the very same day, 32 years apart, Sept. 19. Three years ago today, Central Mexico shook under a powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A powerful earthquake of magnitud 7.5 on the Richter Scale rocked Mexico City at about 10:29 a.m. local time on Tuesday, June 23. In a city still under lockdown from the covid-19 pandemic and still recovering from the massive damages of the Sept. 19, 2017 quake, the tremor sent nervous residents fleeing from their
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XINHUA An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted 173 kilometers to the southeast of San José del Cabo at 3:46 Mexican Central Time on Friday, May 22, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The offshore epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determined to be at 22.4028 degrees north latitude and 108.1636 degrees west longitude. AT this time,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO A case that is currently making ripples in the turbulent waters of Mexican politics today began when the well-known lawyer Juan Collado Mocelo was arrested on Tuesday, July 9, at high-end Mexico City eatery Morton’s Steak House in Lomas de Chapultepec. At the moment of his arrest, Collado Mocelo was eating with one of his clients, Pemex
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A powerful magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit the southern Mexican state of Chiapas in the late morning of Friday, Feb. 1, and was felt as far north as Mexico City and as far south as Guatemala and El Salvador. The telluric quake, which hit at approximately 10:19 a.m., had its epicenter near Tapachula, Chiapas and was similar
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and Argentina
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF One year ago today, Central Mexico shook under a powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck at 1:14 p.m. local time. The earthquake caused damage across the Mexican states of Puebla and Morelos and throughout many parts of greater Mexico City, leading to the collapse of 40 buildings and the deaths of at least 370
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Frida, a rescue dog from Mexico’s Naval Secretariat’ canine unit that helped search for survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings after last year’s devastating 7.1-magnitude earthquake on Sept.19, was recognized with the unveiling of her own statue in an ecological park in Puebla on Friday, July 20. Accredited with having helped to save
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