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Article snippet: JUCHITÁN DE ZARAGOZA, Mexico — Under the glare of portable floodlights and the flashlights that some held, men in sweat-soaked jumpsuits dug into a hillock of rubble in this town, the night after the largest earthquake to hit Mexico in a century flattened buildings here and across southern Mexico. Atop the mound of debris, the men at times moved like archaeologists, sifting with bare, dirt-encrusted hands, chunk by concrete chunk. At other times, they powered up an excavator, which, with its own brutish precision, moved the workers closer to their goal. There was a man under there — perhaps alive, perhaps dead. Throughout Friday, victims were pulled from the ruins of homes, shops and offices in Juchitán de Zaragoza, a town of 100,000 in Oaxaca State: at least 36 dead, more than 300 injured. The earthquake, which was felt as far north as Mexico City, more than 300 miles away, had killed at least 61 people across southern Mexico as of Saturday morning. But no place had lost more than Juchitán. President Enrique Peña Nieto, seeking to soothe the nation, visited the town on Friday afternoon. “Indeed, the strength of this earthquake was devastating, but we are also certain that the strength of unity, the strength of solidarity and the strength of shared responsibility will be greater,” Mr. Peña Nieto said in a statement. By nightfall, he and his entourage were gone. The earthquake that struck was more powerful than the one in 1985 that killed about 10,000 people, many... Link to the full article to read more