A 6.9-magnitude earthquake shook Mexico in the early hours of Thursday, killing two people, officials said.
The National Seismological Service said Monday’s 7.7-magnitude earthquake was the strongest on record, killing two people and damaging more than 3,000 homes.
So far, the country has recorded 1,229 aftershocks from Monday’s event.
Two people died in Mexico City, including a man who suffered a heart attack during the earthquake and a woman who hit her head when she fell down the stairs of her home shortly after the seismic alarm went off.
A loud alarm travels faster than seismic waves and warns on average one minute before a major seismic movement occurs, allowing residents to leave their homes or search for a safe area.
The earthquake took the residents of Mexico City by surprise. Hearing the seismic alarm, many people got out of their beds and ran into the streets.
The epicenter of the earthquake was located 84 km from Coalcomán in Michoacán (western) state, where the main event took place. First, the Seismological Service put the magnitude of Thursday’s quake at 6.5 degrees.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the quake was felt in Mexico City and the Pacific coast states of Michoacán, Colima, Jalisco and Guerrero.
“There have been no reports of damage so far,” the president said in a video recorded in his office where he announced he was in contact with the capital’s mayor, Claudia Sheinbaum.
The earthquake was strongly felt in various parts of Mexico City and in the metropolitan area of 22 million people, about 400 km from the epicenter.
Sheinbaum reported that governorship helicopters flew over the city and so far there has been no damage.
earthquake week
As every September 19th, a severe earthquake shook Mexico less than an hour later, after a simulation involving millions of people, on Monday when the country remembers two earthquakes that struck on the same date in 1985 and 2017.
In 1985, a magnitude 8.1 earthquake destroyed many areas of the capital. More than 10,000 people died in the city alone.
On September 19, 2017, another 7.1 magnitude earthquake surprised Mexicans and killed 369 people.
Officials from the National Seismological Service said the three earthquakes that occurred on the same date were the product of “coincidence.”
Mexico records intense seismic activity as it is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, which connects the Americas with Asia and where most earthquakes occur in the world.
source: Noticias
