A 7.6 magnitude earthquake shakes Mexico on the anniversary of two previous quakes

A 7.6 magnitude earthquake shakes Mexico on the anniversary of two previous quakes MEXICO CITY — A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico’s central Pacific coast on Monday, killing at least one person and setting off a seismic alarm in the rattled capital on the anniversary of two earlier devastating quakes.

There were in any event an early reports of harm to structures from the shudder, which hit at 1:05 p.m. neighborhood time, as indicated by the U.S. Geologic Study, which had at first put the extent at 7.5.

It said the quake was centered 37 kilometers (23 miles) southeast of Aquila near the boundary of Colima and Michoacan states and at a depth of 15.1 kilometers (9.4 miles).

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said via Twitter that the secretary of the navy told him one person was killed in the port city of Manzanillo, Colima when a wall at a mall collapsed.

In Coalcoman, Michoacan, close to the shudder’s focal point, structures were harmed, however there were not prompt reports of wounds.

“It started slowly and then was really strong and continued and continued until it started to relent,” said 16-year-old Carla Cárdenas, a resident of Coalcoman. Cárdenas ran out of her family’s hotel and waited with neighbors.

She said the hotel and some homes along the street displayed cracks in walls and segments of facades and roofs had broken off.

“In the lodging, the top of the stopping region blast and tumbled to the ground, and there are breaks in the walls on the second foor,” Cárdenas said.

She said the town’s hospital was seriously damaged, but she had so far not heard of anyone injured.

Mexico’s Public Common Safeguard organization said that in light of memorable information of torrents in Mexico, varieties of as much as 32 inches (82 cm) were conceivable in beach front water levels close to the focal point. The U.S. Torrent Cautioning Center said that unsafe tidal wave waves were workable for coasts inside 186 miles (300 kilometers) of the focal point.

Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum tweeted that there were no reports of damage in the capital.

Alarms for the new quake came less than an hour after a quake alarms warbled in a nationwide earthquake simulation marking major, deadly quakes that struck on the same date in 1985 and 2017.

“This is a coincidence,” that this is the third Sept. 19 earthquake, said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Paul Earle. “There’s no physical reason or statistical bias toward earthquakes in any given month in Mexico.”

Nor is there a season or month for huge seismic tremors anyplace on the globe, Earle said. Yet, there is something anticipated: Individuals look for and now and again find occurrences that seem to be designs.

“We knew we’d get this question as soon as it happened,” Earle said. “Sometimes there are just coincidences.”

The quake was not related to or caused by the drill an hour or so earlier, nor was it connected to a damaging temblor in Taiwan the day before, Earle said.

Humberto Garza remained external a café in Mexico City’s Roma area holding his 3-year child. In the same way as other standing around outside after the tremor, Garza said that the quake alert sounded so not long after the yearly reproduction that he didn’t know it was genuine.

“I heard the alarm, but it sounded really far away,” he said.

Outside the city’s environmental ombudsman’s office, dozens of employees waited. Some appeared visibly shaken.

Power was out in parts of the city, including stoplights, snarling the capital’s already notorious traffic.

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck off the western coast of Mexico on Monday afternoon.

President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed Monday afternoon that a person died due to a fence falling in a shopping center in Manzanillo, Colima.

The U.S. Geographical Study said it at first enrolled areas of strength for the around 25 miles southeast of La Placita de Morelos, Mexico, hitting soon after 1 p.m. Focal Time.

The earthquake was said to be felt as far inland as Mexico City.

Officials said a tsunami is not expected in California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii or Alaska. 

Mexico City had planned an earthquake drill Monday afternoon to mark the anniversary of two deadly earthquakes, according to local reports. In 1985, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake killed at least 9,500 people, and in 2017, more than 260 people died from a magnitude 7.1 earthquake

Not a long way from where the tremor started is Hurricane Madeline in the eastern Pacific. The hurricane’s external downpour groups were estimate to create a few crawls of downpour off the Jalisco coast into Monday evening.