Given this, the constitutional governor of Guerrero, Hector Astudillo, has reported the effects that arose from the accident through its official channels. Nine days after the earthquake, the president and the authorities of the Coordination Table for the Construction of Peace held a virtual meeting in which they announced that more than 8,700 homes were affected in the state, so he pointed it out too Marco Cesar Mayares Salvador, head of the Civil Protection Secretariat of Guerrero.
In addition to the houses, Damages were occasionally reported on 74 roads, 47 educational establishments, 13 religious centers and 13 hotels. Likewise, the earthquake left three people dead, who were residents of the municipalities of Las Tortolitas, Coyuca de Benítez and La Poza, a rural community in Acapulco.
According to the National Seismological, Until 6:00 p.m. this Thursday, September 16, 951 replicas of the event have been registered, being a telluric movement of 5.2 degrees on the Richter scale the strongest aftershock recorded so far. This smaller earthquake occurred just a few minutes after the incident that affected several municipalities in Guerrero.
Last Sunday, September 12, Astudillo Flores announced that the number of victims of the accident amounted to more than 15,000 people, in the update released recently, reported that the number of affected “is about to reach 20,000 people, whose assets suffered from moderate to strong effects” and also shared on Twitter part of the action plans that will be carried out with the competent federal authorities to address the emergency.
“Undersecretary Ariadna Montiel Reyes (head of the Ministry of Welfare of the Government of Mexico) informed us that the SEDENA (Secretariat of National Defense) will be responsible for coordinating the census of victims, registering damages and housing services, household items, losses of productive livestock, as well as paving and roads, ”wrote the governor of Guerrero through his official Twitter account.
It also pointed out that on September 14, federal and state authorities installed the Damage Assessment Committee (CED) as part of the process with which they will carry out the aforementioned censuses to quantify in detail how many families were affected and provide them with support after the declaration of disaster in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF). The person who will coordinate the CED will be Cosovi Isaac Ocampo Guzmán, current head of the Ministry of Urban Development, Public Works and Territorial Planning of the Government of the State of Guerrero.
On Saturday, September 11, the third victim of the shaking magnitude 7.1 that shook central and southern Mexico. The victim was identified as José María “N”, a 14-year-old teenager who died from injuries caused by falling off a wall during the earthquake.
Before him, the deaths of two other people were reported from the tremor. One of them was the young man who lost his life in Pie de la Cuesta, in the municipality of Coyuca de Benítez, after a lamp post fell on him while riding a motorcycle.
The second victim was an older adult who died in the town of Las Tortolitas, located in the rural area of Acapulco. A wall also allegedly fell on her.
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