Europe 1 with AFP 9:46 p.m., September 19, 2022
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.
The epicenter was located in the state of Michoacan, in the west of the country.
Mexico's National Seismological Institute said a 7.4 magnitude earthquake was felt in central Mexico City on Monday, the same day as the two devastating earthquakes in 1985 and 2017. The epicenter was located in the state of Michoacan (west).
"We sincerely hope that nothing serious has happened," President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador tweeted.
Primer reports sober seismo pic.twitter.com/tanl3ILVZV
— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) September 19, 2022
'No damage' so far
"So far no damage is being reported," Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said on Twitter.
In the capital, residents took to the streets again when the alarm sounded, barely half an hour after an anti-seismic exercise.
"We didn't think it was true! But it is. It's impressive that today, once again, the earth is shaking so strongly," Karina Suarez, 37, told AFP in the center. of the capital.
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.