An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale shook central Mexico on Monday, according to the country’s seismic authority.
On Twitter, the National Seismological Service writes that the earthquake originated 63 kilometers south of Coalcoman, on the west coast.
The quake struck at 1:05 p.m. local time (7:05 p.m. in Lisbon) and the United States Geological Survey said there was a tsunami threat.
The alarms had sounded in the country less than an hour before this earthquake, when a nationwide drill was put into practice. Ivo Pinto, an official from the Portuguese embassy in Mexico, says that these devices alerted the entire population.
“We went out into the street” and, after “about 15 minutes”, it was possible to return to the interior of the buildings.
when you talked to TSFShortly before 8:00 p.m., Ivo Pinto described a “calm situation” in the area where he was and there was no information about “aftershocks.”
“This day is usually complicated here in Mexico because there are two anniversaries: in 2017 and in 1985 there were two great earthquakes that completely shook the city and even houses collapsed,” says the Portuguese.
Precisely for this reason, a few minutes before -at 12:20 pm- a drill was carried out “to raise awareness”. Only this time, “after an hour, there was a real earthquake.”
With no information about aftershocks and no “chaos” on the site, Ivo Pinto explains that, in Mexico, there is information that the earthquake also hit the United States and Japan.
Source: TSF
