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Mexico City was shaken by a magnitude 7.4 earthquake on Monday. The phenomenon occurred an hour after the commemorations to remember the victims of the earthquakes of September 19, 1987 and 2017.
An earthquake of magnitude 7.4 shook central Mexico on Monday, September 19.
The National Seismological Service (SSN) of the Aztec country revealed that the earthquake occurred at 1:05 p.m. local time.
Although the epicenter was located 63 kilometers south of Coalcoman, in the state of Michoacán, western Mexico, the earthquake extended to locations in the south and Pacific of Mexico, such as Colima and Jalisco.
The head of the Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, ruled out strong damage. She on her Twitter account assured that “so far no damage has been reported in the City.”
Even so, he requested the evacuation of several old buildings in the center of the Mexican capital, while “five condors from the Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City continue to fly over” for security reasons.
Just an hour earlier, the president of the Latin American country, Andres Manuel López Obrador, led a ceremony to remember the victims of the tremors of September 19, 1985 and 2017, considered the two most destructive in the nation’s recent history.
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