A strong earthquake measuring 7.1 magnitude struck Central Mexico toppling major buildings and killing around 149 people. Only a month before a even powerful earthquake of 8.1 scale left around 90 killed and the second earthquake has crippled the life of people. World leaders have expressed shock and grief while Americanneighboring President and neighbouring county leaders have offered help in any means required.

More than 2 million people were left without power as the earthquake broke various power grids and phone lines. Among various high rise buildings was also a school which came under severe destruction 8 children dead. The weird part was that the earthquake happened exactly at a time when hundreds were gathered for an Earthquake drill in memory of 32nd anniversary of a quake that killed 10,000 people. As the alarms went off, many people thought it was a part of drill and only when buildings started collapsing they took shelter