Photos: 7.6 earthquake hits Mexico’s Pacific coast on anniversary of previous quakes
byDuc Manh•
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MEXICO CITY — A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico’s central Pacific coast on Monday, killing at the very least one individual and setting off a seismic alarm within the rattled capital on the anniversary of two earlier devastating quakes.
There have been at the very least some early stories of injury to buildings from the quake, which hit at 1:05 p.m. native time, based on the U.S. Geologic Survey, which had initially put the magnitude at 7.5.
It mentioned the quake was centered 23 miles southeast of Aquila close to the boundary of Colima and Michoacan states and at a depth of 9.4 miles.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador mentioned through Twitter that the secretary of the navy informed him one individual was killed within the port metropolis of Manzanillo, Colima when a wall at a mall collapsed.
In Coalcoman, Michoacan, close to the quake’s epicenter, buildings had been broken, however there weren't instant stories of accidents.
Alarms for the brand new quake got here lower than an hour after a quake alarms warbled in a nationwide earthquake simulation marking main quakes that struck on the identical date in 1985 and 2017. The magnitude 8.0 quake centered close to the coast of Guerrero state in 1985 killed at the very least 9,500 folks. Greater than 360 folks died within the magnitude 7.1 quake that struck in 2017.
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