It is expected that power supply will be cut even more as the storm is moving north. The airports of Miami, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale and Tampa have been shut down.
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has been hit with tomatoes already twice within a week. The incidents happened during Merkel’s campaign trail.
Damages of the powerful Irma storm amounted near 1,2 billion Euros in the French overseas territories of Saint Martin and Saint Barthelemy, CCP, the French governmental insurance company said.
“Some regions are out of power supply, and communication with remote cities is becoming gradually difficult”, BBC reported.
“By declaring a full State of Emergency we are ensuring that all resources and personnel are in place to respond, in the event they are needed here in Alabama or elsewhere,” the statement said.
The powerful quake was recorded at 8.2 magnitudes. The Mexican president said the tremors were the most powerful in 100 years.
It was a major earthquake in scale and magnitude, the strongest in the past 100 years,” President Peña Nieto said in an address from the National Disaster Prevention Centre’s headquarters, where he was supervising the emergency response.
The European Parliament will soon prepare the “Corruption and human rights in third countries” document, which will touch upon the recently revealed and widely discussed Azerbaijani Laundromat scandal involving a state-sanctioned money laundering scheme of the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his family, Azerbaijani media said.
Discussions and debates around the Nagorno Karabakh conflict will be held during the upcoming sitting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, APA reported citing OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen, who visited Baku.
The epicenter was 54 miles (87 km) southwest of the town of Pijijiapan in the southern state of Chiapas, at a depth of 43 miles. Three people were killed in the state, said Governor Manuel Velasquez. Two more people were killed in neighboring Tabasco state, the state governor said.
