Hundreds of homes are damaged in Acapulco after earthquake

Acapulco (Mexico), Sep 10 (EFE) .- Inhabitants of Acapulco denounced this Friday that around 600 houses in a group of houses were left uninhabitable after the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that hit southern and central Mexico on Tuesday.
“Our houses are collapsing more every day, they seem like polvorones. Day by day they are crumbling, right now with this earthquake that there was no longer holding, the houses are thundering and we cannot even live there,” Jaqueline Ocampo told Efe this Friday, who has had to move to the parking lot of the building with his family.
In addition to this, Jaqueline assured that her situation is getting worse, since the inclement weather and the lack of public services within the urban development – which already had flaws – have turned a “paradise” into a “horror”.
“We cannot with this situation of continuing to pay our houses and go to pay a rent, we are living on the street,” said the woman, and denounced that according to the construction company these houses had the best structures and finishes.
Despite the fact that the damage is visible to the naked eye, the neighbors denounced that these houses – which present damages of different intensity – are not being accounted for by any authority.
Although after this complaint, the Civil Protection Secretariat of the southern state of Guerrero announced that there are 3,000 homes affected between the municipalities of Acapulco, Chilpancingo and José Joaquín de Herrera.
In addition to 13 hospitals, 35 educational establishments, 6 religious centers, some considered cultural heritage, 13 hotels and 63 road collapses
For this reason, residents of the place blocked a section of the Acapulco-Zihuatanejo highway on Friday to demand from the authorities, as well as the real estate company, a solution for the houses.
For María Isabel Carreón, the situation she is going to face is a little more complicated than for others.
Since she had the opportunity to pay for her house earlier than established, so the insurance no longer covers the damages caused by the earthquake.
“I traveled from Mexico City to see how my house was. There I also suffered damage but I know there is support. But here, who is going to pay for my house?” He lamented.
On Tuesday night, an earthquake with an epicenter 11 kilometers from the Acapulco resort, in the southern state of Guerrero, shook several states in the country.
According to the National Seismological Service, the earthquake had a magnitude of 7.1, leaving a dead man and material damage in several municipalities of Guerrero, where there were also power outages.
“Fortunately there is no major damage, so far a victim, a young man who was driving a motorcycle and lost his life, this in Guerrero,” said the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, on Wednesday.
This phenomenon recalled what happened exactly four years ago when an 8.2 magnitude earthquake was recorded which had its epicenter in the Gulf of Tehuantepec and mainly affected the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, where 98 people lost their lives, 78 of them in Oaxaca, 16 in Chiapas and four in Tabasco.