NEWS
December 29, 1999 | Times wire services
A moderately strong earthquake rocked central and southern Mexico late Tuesday, but authorities said they had no reports of damage or injuries. The quake caused some panic in the Mexican capital. The earthquake started at 11:28 p.m. The National Seismological Observatory reported an intensity of 5.9 and said the epicenter was off the Pacific coast of southern Guerrero state. High-rise buildings could be seen swaying along Paseo de la Reforma, the capital's main east-west thoroughfare.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 2, 1999
A delegation of emergency experts from Los Angeles will be sent to Mexico to help victims of the magnitude 7.5 Puerto Angel earthquake and study the disaster's effects. Under a proposal introduced by Councilman Alex Padilla, the City Council voted unanimously Friday to send police, fire, transportation and other city workers to the state of Oaxaca.
NEWS
October 2, 1999 | Times Wire Services
The death toll rose to 20 Friday as officials assessed the damage and residents began to clear away fallen debris from a powerful earthquake that rattled nine of Mexico's 31 states. Roofs crumbled, roads buckled, and electricity was cut off in the poor southeastern state of Oaxaca, the epicenter of Thursday's magnitude 7.5 quake. Officials said that 3,850 buildings were damaged and cautioned that the death toll may rise as information trickles in from remote mountain areas.
NEWS
October 1, 1999 | JAMES F. SMITH, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Central and southern Mexico were rocked Thursday by one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the country since 1985, but initial reports said a dozen people were killed and damage was comparatively minor despite the force of the temblor. The epicenter of Thursday's magnitude 7.5 quake was near the Pacific Coast resort town of Puerto Escondido in the state of Oaxaca. At least 10 people were killed and hundreds of homes damaged in the impoverished southeastern state.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 1, 1999 | MITCHELL LANDSBERG and JOCELYN STEWART, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
When a magnitude 7.5 earthquake cracked buildings and claimed lives in Southern Mexico on Thursday, Spanish-language news stations in Los Angeles went live with coverage, including a statement from Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo. When, about the same time, a nuclear accident sent radiation spilling out of a uranium processing plant in Japan, workers in Japanese businesses in Los Angeles dropped what they were doing and went to the Internet.
NEWS
June 24, 1999 | MARY BETH SHERIDAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Jose Luis Romero, an auto worker who lives on the edge of this treasured colonial city, made a pilgrimage to inspect the damage wrought by last week's powerful earthquake. What he saw unnerved him. "The people of Puebla are in pain," he said this week as he gazed at the mustard-yellow bell tower of the 17th century Church of San Agustin, the top of which looked as if it had been chewed off. "It will be very expensive to fix this. Some things will return to what they were before, but not all."