09/08/2021 2:23 AM
Clarín.com
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Updated 09/08/2021 2:29 AM
They were in one of the worst possible places, at the wrong time, and they spent about an hour in the air in panic.
These are the passengers who were traveling on the Mexico City Cablebus when the 7.1 magnitude earthquake
shook the capital of the North American country.
Several people
were trapped in the
Iztapalapa
Cablebus
due to a power outage.
As reported, users were suspended from 8:47 p.m. and, about 73 minutes later, the service was normalized, according to what was specified by the head of the capital's government, Claudia Sheinbaum.
A video that quickly went viral on social networks shows how the difficult situation of
feeling that everything is moving tens of meters high
was experienced from inside a cable car
.
"It is being banded a lot,"
one of the passengers despairs, praying to the "pretty little virgin."
"Easy, easy, nothing happens", tries to calm the spirits a man, who inside had to live the same terror as the rest.
For her part, Gabriela Cruz, who was on board, once ashore put into words what she experienced: “
It was a very ugly experience
.
They didn't tell us anything and the seismic alert just started, it started shaking, and the cable bus stopped, "he said on TV Azteca Noticias.
The situation had also been recorded from the street, by a Twitter user, who showed
how the vehicle was moving
while it was stopped in the middle of the journey and awaiting the return of service.
An earthquake that shook Mexico
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake shook Mexico City and surrounding regions on Tuesday night, with
a death
toll
, several areas without electricity and damage to some structures and buildings, according to the authorities.
The earthquake had its epicenter 11 kilometers southeast of Acapulco, in southeastern Mexico, according to the National Seismological Service.
The governor of Guerrero, Héctor Astudillo, confirmed the death of a person in Coyuca de Benítez.
"They are confirming that
a pole fell due to the earthquake, it fell on him and he died,
" the governor reported.
"So far
no serious damage has been reported
," Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum wrote on Twitter.
"We have some
power outages
, but without relevant news, the metro and the Metrobús continue to work," Omar García, head of the Citizen Security Secretariat for that district, told Milenio TV.
Astudillo, from Guerrero, added to the press that in the port of Acapulco there had not been any injuries or damages, at the moment.
The earthquake, late into the Mexican night -almost early in the Argentine morning, was also perceived moderately in some regions of the state of Puebla and with intensity in other cities of the State of Mexico.
Images of panic invaded social networks.
Adela Román Ocampo, mayor of Acapulco, stated that the earthquake was "very strong."
"This event has us concerned, there is no major damage other than
blackouts and gas leaks,
" he added.
The earthquake caused a nervous breakdown in the center of Mexico City, whose inhabitants still have the tragic memory of the 7.1-degree earthquakes recorded on September 19, 2017, and that of September 9 of the same year - fresh. almost exact date to the present - that shook the center of the country and left 369 dead, the majority in the capital.
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