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Liputan6.com, Mexico City: City of Mexicali declared a disaster area, after a huge earthquake shook the region on Sunday afternoon [read: 7.2 quake rattles SR US-Mexico Border]. Baja California Governor Jose Guadalupe Osuna said on Monday (5 / 4) local time that the government will evaluate the damage and declared a disaster zone in an emergency, in order to gain access to funding assistance provided by the federal government.

The earthquake, which killed two people and wounded more than 230 people were causing damage to building structures, roads, and highways, especially in the Mexicali Valley. Osuna did not mention the cost of damage, but he said that the demise of the water will affect at least 60,000 hectares of agricultural land.

With the re-operation of electrical services, activities in the city will quickly recover, he added. A spokesman for the Federal Electricity Commission in Mexicali, Estefano Conde said one of the two transmission lines of Mexicali has been fixed - it can meet the electricity to 11 of 27 substations. (Xinhua / ARI)