(CNN Spanish) — An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 shook Mexico this Monday, according to reports from the United States Geological Survey (USGS, for its acronym in English).
The seismic focus was located at a depth of 10 kilometers and the epicenter was located 42 kilometers north-northwest of La Placita de Morelos, Michoacán.
The earthquake was also felt strongly in Mexico City.
The National Seismological of Mexico recorded it with a magnitude 7.4.
USGS had initially recorded the move at 7.5.
The Tsunami Warning Center has issued a tsunami alert warning of potentially dangerous waves hitting Mexico immediately, CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller reports.
It is the anniversary of the two earthquakes that hit Mexico City and other locations hard in 1985 and 2017.
Earlier this Monday there was a national earthquake drill, which included the activation of the seismic alert in the country’s capital, just as part of the exercise. Then the movement occurred, just as it did in 2017.
One dead in Colima following fall of a fence
After the earthquake registered this Monday, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said that José Rafael Ojeda Durán, secretary of the Navy, told him that a person lost his life in a shopping center in Manzanillo, state of Colima, following a fence fell.
What the authorities have said regarding the earthquake
In 2017, shortly following noon Morelos, Puebla, Mexico City, the State of Mexico, Guerrero and Oaxaca felt an earthquake of 7.1 degree magnitude. It happened following another earthquake of great intensity was registered that same month, on September 7, with a magnitude of 8.1. And in 1985, one of the most devastating earthquakes for Mexico occurred, leaving some 10,000 dead.
The head of the Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, said on her Twitter account that so far no damage has been reported in the country’s capital and reported that five condors fly over the streets of the city. For his part, the Secretary of Citizen Security of Mexico City, Omar García Harfuch, said that so far there had been no “relevant damage.”
There are no damages or relevant news at the moment. We will keep reporting from @C5_CDMX with the cabinet headed by @Claudiashein
— Omar Garcia Harfuch (@OHarfuch) September 19, 2022
Later, at a press conference, Sheinbaum said that they were working on the report of the drill that took place almost an hour before in commemoration of the tragic earthquakes of 1985 and 2017: “We were working on the report of the earthquake drill minutes before that the alert sounded,” said the head of the Government of Mexico City.
“I managed to talk to the president. We call you immediately. There is no major damage in the city, and we will inform you later if there is major material damage, ”he reported.
“It was a difficult situation because we already know that we have had difficult earthquakes and to have an earthquake on this day, obviously people are afraid,” Sheinbaum added.
The impact and trauma left by previous tremors in the country cause nervous breakdowns in the inhabitants as soon as the alarms sound. Civil Protection personnel located in the main square of Mexico City informed the local media Milenio TV that they have treated at least 50 people who presented symptoms of nervous breakdown following the earthquake on Monday.
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, gave the preliminary report of the National Seismological from the courtyard of the National Palace and said: “We wish with all our hearts that nothing serious has happened.”
The president has uploaded several videos to his social networks as the reports are received by the authorities throughout the country. I know communicated with the governor of Michoacán, Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, who informed him of the situation in the state. “There are only reports of material damage in Coalcomán, where the epicenter was, and in nearby areas,” said López Obrador. The president also communicated with the head of the Government of Mexico City, where “there is no serious damage.”
First earthquake report pic.twitter.com/tanl3ILVZV
– Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) September 19, 2022
The Government of Michoacán said on its Twitter account that the emergency protocols were activated following the magnitude 7.5 earthquake, according to the USGS, whose epicenter was located 42 kilometers north-northwest of La Placita de Morelos, Michoacán. “We ask you to remain calm,” the government wrote.
⚠️ | Emergency protocols were activated due to the earthquake recorded this followingnoon in Michoacán. @pcmichoacan stays alert.
We ask you to remain calm.
– Government of Michoacán (@GobMichoacan) September 19, 2022
The governor of Oaxaca, Alejandro Murat, reported on his Twitter account that the civil protection protocols had been activated and that, so far, no damage had been reported in the state. “#earthquake was perceived and the alarm was activated in #Oaxaca, we proceed to activate civil protection protocols @CEPCO_GobOax,” Murat wrote.
was perceived #earthquake and the alarm was activated #Oaxaca we proceed to activate civil protection protocols @CEPCO_GobOax. At the moment they inform me that there is no damage.
– Alejandro Murat (@alejandromurat) September 19, 2022
