An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 shook twelve states in western and central Mexico on Thursday and left at least two dead. At first there were no reports of damage to structures.
The quake came three days after a 7.6 magnitude quake hit 12 of the country’s 32 states and left two dead in the western state of Colima.
According to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake occurred at 1:16 local time (0616 GMT) with an epicenter between the states of Michoacán and Colima, at a depth of 24.1 kilometers.
The National Civil Protection Coordination reported on its Twitter account that the earthquake was felt in the states of Michoacán, Colima, Jalisco, Guerrero, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Mexico, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tlaxcala and Mexico City, where no damage was reported.
The mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, said in a message on her Twitter account that a woman died after hitting her head when she fell from the stairs of her home after the seismic alert was activated.
Likewise, the Secretariat of Citizen Security of the Mexican capital reported a man who died of a heart attack after the earthquake.
Many residents of Mexico City took to the streets in the middle of the night after hearing the seismic alert.
At the beginning of the week, a strong earthquake was registered that was the third recorded on September 19, as it happened in 1985 and 2017. The earthquakes of 2017 and this year also occurred shortly after the annual drill that is carried out every September to commemorate the devastating 1985 earthquake, which killed about 9,500 people.
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