A strong 7.4-magnitude quake hit western Mexico on Monday and was felt as far away as central Mexico City, the same day as the devastating earthquakes of 1985 and 2017, the national seismological institute said.
"We sincerely hope that nothing serious has happened," President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador tweeted.
The epicenter was located in the state of Michoacan (west).
"So far, no damage is being reported," Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said on Twitter.
In the capital, residents took to the streets when the alarm sounded, barely half an hour after an anti-seismic exercise.
“We didn't think that was true!
But if.
It is impressive that today, once again, the earth is shaking so strongly,” Karina Suarez, 37, told AFP in the center of the capital.
A sad double anniversary
An anti-seismic exercise is organized every year in Mexico City by the authorities on the occasion of the double anniversary of the two major earthquakes of September 19, 1985 and 2017. On September 19, 2017, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake caused the death of 369 people.
On September 19, 1985, an earthquake of magnitude 8.1 devastated the center of Mexico City, killing more than 10,000 people, most of them in the capital.
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