UP TO 360 BUILDINGS AT RISK FOLLOWING 7.1 EARTHQUAKE
MEXICO
MEXICO CITY As many as 360 buildings and homes are in danger of collapse or with major damage in Mexico City nearly a week after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake destroyed 38 structures.
The risk of delayed collapse is real: The cupola of Our Lady of Angels Church, cracked by the Sept. 19 quake, split in half Sunday. There were no injuries.
Officials said they had cleared only 103 of Mexico City’s nearly 9,000 schools to reopen Monday and said it could be two to three weeks before all were declared safe — leaving hundreds of thousands of children idle.
Search teams were still digging through dangerous piles of rubble Monday, hoping to find survivors. The city has accounted for 186 of the 325 dead nationwide.