`` We have homes and lives torn apart , in some cases ... by an event of the most traumatic proportions . NEW : The official death toll in Queensland stands at 18 , police say . Fourteen people are still missing in the northeastern state . A man is carried away from a collapsed building after an earthquake hit central Mexico City on September 19, 2013. A mother and her two children are among those who died .
NEW : The official death toll in Queensland stands at 18 , police say . Fourteen people are still missing in the northeastern state . A man is carried away from a collapsed building after an earthquake hit central Mexico City on September 19, 2013. A mother and her two children are among those who died .