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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The politician of Mexico City, a quake-prone municipality of 20 meg people, said on Friday he is thinking a warning grouping that module send alerts direct to ambulatory phones seconds before an seism strikes.

The capital, shapely on crowning of a lake, suffered the devastating personalty of an 8.1 ratio tremble in Sept 1985 that killed thousands when buildings were leveled crossways the municipality just as grouping got ready for work and school.

"I think we module have it in locate soon, because it is not likewise complex," Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, a probable contender in the 2012 statesmanly election, told reporters. "We poverty it to be in locate before September," he said.

Ebrard, who has adopted social media same Twitter to immediately communicate with citizens whenever there is a strong tremble or streets are flooded after storms, said the capital's government is in talks with radiophone sound assist providers to attain the signal happen.

This year, a crowning chief from America Movil, parent of Telcel, the maximal radiophone sound brand in Mexico, told Reuters that the company's existing network allowed for this category of tremble alerts to users.

Ebrard declined to name which companies would be included in his tremble signal organisation for wireless phones. The municipality already has an signal programme through radio seconds before a tremble hits, but it doesn't always causing on time.

The mayor, who module compete with his semipolitical intellect Andres Lopez Obrador to embellish Mexico's left politician for the 2012 elections, is also expanding a information offering bike rentals in a bid to edge traffic during festinate hours.

By instalment cycle stations in digit other laboring playing centers in the municipality -- wealthy Polanco and the historic downtown -- Ebrard expects to have more than 70,000 bikes employed by the modify of year.

(Additional reporting by Miguel Angel Gutierrez; redaction by suffragist Boadle)

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