A major earthquake struck near the Mexican resort of Acapulco.
The US earthquake monitoring station USGS gave the strength of the tremor on Tuesday evening (local time) as 7.0, Mexico's seismological service SSN as 7.1.
According to the SSN, the center was eleven kilometers southwest of Acapulco in the southern state of Guerrero, at a depth of around ten kilometers.
The governor of Guerrero, Héctor Astudillo, said on Milenio television that a man died in Coyuca de Benítez when a mast fell on him.
There are many reports of damage to buildings.
Tsunami alert on the Pacific coast
The quake could also be clearly felt in Mexico City, more than 300 kilometers away. The mayor of the capital, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced on Twitter that there were initially no reports of serious damage. In many parts of the city, however, the power went out. According to the US tsunami warning system, a tsunami was possible on Guerrero's Pacific coast.
The entire west coast of the American double continent lies on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, which is known for its seismic activity. Violent earthquakes occur time and again in Mexico. On September 19, 2017, a tremor (magnitude 7.1) killed 369 people, 228 of them in Mexico City - at that time the epicenter was closer to the capital. The accident occurred exactly 32 years to the day after an 8.1 magnitude earthquake that killed at least 10,000 people in Mexico City in 1985.