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International News: Strong 6.8 magnitude earthquake shakes Mexico, 1 dead

Posted: Thursday, September 22, 2022. 8:01 am CST.

By Aaron Humes: The Associated Press via National Public Radio reports that a preliminary magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Mexico’s Pacific Coast early Thursday morning, causing further damage and at least one death.

Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said via Twitter that one woman died in a central neighborhood when she fell down the stairs of her home. Residents were huddled in the streets as seismic alarms blared.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador posted on Twitter that it was an aftershock from Monday’s quake and was also felt in the states of Colima, Jalisco, and Guerrero. The U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday’s earthquake, like Monday’s, was centered in the western state of Michoacan, near the Pacific coast. The epicenter was about 29 miles south-southwest of Aguililla, Michoacan, at a depth of about 15 miles.

The earthquake struck shortly after 1 a.m., just three days after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake shook western and central Mexico, killing two.

Michoacan’s state government said the quake was felt throughout the state. It reported damage to a building in the city of Uruapan and some landslides on the highway that connects Michoacan and Guerrero with the coast.

The earthquake rattled an already jittery country. Monday’s more powerful quake was the third major earthquake to strike on September 19 — in 1985, 2017, and now 2022. The 2017 and 2022 shocks each came very shortly after the annual earthquake drill conducted every September 19 to commemorate the devastating 1985 temblor that killed some 9,500 people.

 

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