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MEXICO CITY – An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale shook Mexico’s central Pacific coast Monday, killing at least one person and setting off a seismic alarm in the ravaged capital on the anniversary of two previous devastating earthquakes .
There were no immediate reports of significant damage from the earthquake that struck at 1:05 p.m. local time, according to the US Geological Survey, which had initially estimated its magnitude at 7.5.
It said the quake was 23 miles southeast of Aquila, near the border of the states of Colima and Michoacan and at a depth of 15.4 miles.
People remain on the streets after an earthquake in Mexico City on September 19, 2022. Pedro Pardo / AFP via Getty Images
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said via Twitter that the Secretary of the Navy told him that one person had died in the port city of Manzanillo, Colima, when a shopping center wall collapsed.
Michoacan’s Public Safety Department said there were no immediate reports of significant damage in that state, apart from some cracks in buildings in the city of Coalcoman.
Mexico’s National Civil Defense Agency said that based on historical records of tsunamis in Mexico, variations of as much as 32 inches were possible in coastal water levels near the epicenter. The US Tsunami Warning Center said dangerous tsunami waves were possible off coasts within 286 miles of the epicenter.
Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum also tweeted that there were no reports of damage in the capital
Alarms for the new earthquake came less than an hour after an earthquake alarm went off in a nationwide earthquake simulation that marked major, deadly earthquakes that struck on the same date in 1985 and 2017.
Humberto Garza stood in front of a restaurant in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City with his 3-year-old son. Like many who walked outside after the quake, Garza said the earthquake alarm sounded so soon after the annual simulation that he wasn’t sure if it was real.
“I heard the alarm, but it sounded very far away,” he said.
Dozens of employees waited outside the city’s environmental ombudsman’s office. Some seemed visibly shocked.
Power went out in parts of the city, including traffic lights, disrupting the capital’s already infamous traffic.