Days after Hurricane Maria pounded the island of Puerto Rico, killing at least 10 people, authorities are starting to see firsthand the scope of devastation that left the US territory off the grid.
Millions of Puerto Rico residents continue to reel from Hurricane Maria as the National Weather Service says the storm could bring "direct impacts" to the US East Coast in the coming days.
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake shook central and southern Mexico on Saturday morning, the US Geological Survey said, rattling a country still coming to grips with the devastation from two other major temblors earlier this month.
A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Oaxaca, Mexico, early Saturday, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake was located 4 miles from Lázaro Cárdenas in southern Oaxaca. USGS puts the depth at 32 kilometers.
Martin Mendez spent 17 hours trapped beneath the ruins of a six-story building in Mexico City before rescuers pulled him and three others out of the wreckage.
Days after a deadly earthquake in the battered the small market town of Jojutla, collective shock and fear have already given way to the gritty work of cleaning up and moving forward.
Those anxious to learn about the fate of their loved ones in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria say that waiting for word is the most agonizing part.
Puerto Rico grappled with damages and deaths caused by Hurricane Maria on Friday as the storm hurtled across the Caribbean and slapped the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Hiram Navarro had reasons for hope and despair Friday as rescuers hunted for his brother and dozens of others who were feared to be in a Mexico City office building that collapsed in this week's magnitude-7.1 earthquake.
The Turks and Caicos Islands felt Hurricane Maria's wrath Friday as the storm hurtled through the Caribbean while still causing trouble on the battered US territory of Puerto Rico after its landfall two days earlier.
The Mexican navy apologized to the public for the confusion over the reports about a young girl trapped in the rubble of a collapsed school in Mexico City after this week's earthquake.
Members of "Los Topos," or the moles, at times emerge from the ruins of collapsed buildings too traumatized to speak. The cries from those entombed in brick and concrete can be haunting.
Almost two full days after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake destroyed parts of Mexico City, Carlos Enrique Silva and his family found themselves packing up all their belongings into two white pickup trucks, as an unwanted rain-shower trickled down.
The rush of aid and the sense of solidarity that helped lift Mexico City following the deadly earthquake this week have spread outside the Mexican capital.
After devastating the US territory of Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria is tracking toward the Turks and Caicos Islands, and beyond that, the stretched out island chain of the Bahamas.
Tropical Storm Maria formed Saturday in the western Atlantic Ocean, prompting a hurricane watch for Caribbean areas battered by Hurricane Irma last week.
