An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale was recorded in central Mexico this Thursday, killing two people.
One woman died in the aftermath of the earthquake after falling from a ladder and hitting her head, while the second victim died of a heart attack.
Seismic alarms were activated and hundreds of thousands of Mexico City residents were forced to take to the streets.
Mexico City’s head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum, said all the drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) flying over the city “have recorded no damage so far,” according to a post on the social network Twitter.
The earthquake struck at 1:16 AM (7:16 AM in Lisbon) with an epicenter 81 kilometers south of Coalcomán, Michoacán state, on the west coast of the country, where a first-magnitude earthquake was also recorded last Monday. from 6.5, later corrected to 6.9, according to the Seismological Service of Mexico.
The phenomenon occurred after the earthquake that shook Mexico on Monday, less than an hour after the exercise held across the country on September 19 to mark the earthquakes of 1985 and 2017, which occurred on this date and which were identified as the are considered most destructive in the recent Mexican period. history.
In the wake of Monday’s earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale, two people were killed and 10 injured in western Mexico. Since then, more than a thousand replicas have been registered.
Authorities in the Mexican capital have activated surveillance protocols but have not ruled out any damage so far.
The earthquake of September 19, 1985 caused 20,000 deaths and the one in 2017 about 370.
Source: DN
