2023-10-07 06:11:49
A magnitude 6 earthquake was recorded overnight from Friday to Saturday in southern Mexico, with tremors felt as far away as Mexico City, causing material damage without causing any casualties, according to local authorities.
The epicenter of the earthquake was located in the town of Matias Romero located in the state of Oaxaca, announced the national seismological service on X (formerly Twitter), which had previously estimated the magnitude of the earthquake at 6.3.
No “loss of human life” has been reported at this stage, Oaxaca government secretary Jesus Romero told the press.
The earthquake, however, damaged roads, in particular the road leading to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrow part of Mexican territory which separates the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean, the official said.
In the city of Oaxaca, building fences were damaged by the earthquake which also cracked a building housing a hospital and a road bridge, detailed Mr. Romero, specifying that power cuts were also noted.
“We continue to monitor the epicenter area” of the earthquake, the Mexican government’s Civil Protection services had previously declared on social networks.
The earthquake was felt in several areas of the Mexican capital which issued an alert, leading dozens of people to abandon their homes.
“We felt a slight shock,” Marti Batres, the mayor of Mexico City, where nearly nine million inhabitants live, said on X. “No damage has been reported at this time,” he added.
The authorities are “examining the possible effects” of the earthquake throughout the state of Oaxaca, said its governor Salomon Jara.
Mexico is located on the “Pacific Ring of Fire,” an area where the meeting of tectonic plates causes high seismic activity.
On September 19, 2017, a 7.1 magnitude tremor killed 369 people, the majority in Mexico City. In 1985, an 8.1 magnitude earthquake devastated the center of the capital, killing more than 10,000 people.
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