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Mexico City – A powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Mexico early Thursday morning, shaking buildings and killing at least one person in the country’s capital. Residents gathered in the streets as seismic alarms sounded.
Just three days later the tremors struck shortly after 1 am A 7.6-magnitude earthquake jolts western and central Mexico, killing twoo
Thursday’s earthquake, like Monday’s, was centered in the western state of Michoacan near the Pacific coast, the US Geological Survey said. The epicenter was about 29 miles south-southwest of Aguililla, Michoacán, at a depth of about 15 miles.
The government of Michoacán said the earthquake was felt across the state. It reported damage to a building in the town of Urupan and some landslides on the highway connecting Michoacán and Guerrero to the coast.
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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador tweeted that it was an aftershock of Monday’s earthquake and was also felt in the states of Colima, Jalisco and Guerrero.
Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheenbaum said via Twitter that a woman died in a central neighborhood after falling down the stairs of her home.
The latest earthquake shook the already shaken country.
Monday’s stronger one was the third major earthquake to hit on September 19 – 1985, 2017 and now 2022.
The 2017 and 2022 earthquakes come shortly after earthquake drills are held every September 19 to commemorate the devastating 1985 earthquake that killed nearly 9,500 people.
The date of Monday’s quake was just a coincidence, the National Geological Survey said, according to Agence France-Presse. “There is no scientific reason to explain this,” the agency noted.
