The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, confirmed late this Monday afternoon (19) the first death caused by an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale in the state of Colima, where one person lost his life due to fall of a wall.
On social media, the president published that the Secretary of the Navy, José Rafael Ojeda, reported that the death occurred in a commercial center in Manzanillo, close to the epicenter of the earthquake, recorded 63 kilometers south of the municipality of Coalcomán, in the neighboring state of Michoacán. .
This is the first confirmed death after the phenomenon, which occurred at 1:05 pm (local time; 3:05 pm in Brasilia), less than an hour after the national exercise that takes place throughout September 19 to remember the earthquakes of 1985 and 2017, which occurred in same date and are considered the most destructive in recent history.
Previous events were much more deadly: in 1985, more than 10,000 people died, while in five years ago there were 369 deaths.
On Monday, the National Seismological Service (SSN) had initially reported a magnitude of 6.8, which it later adjusted to 7.4, a number that can still be revised.
The quake was also felt in other southern and Pacific states such as Jalisco and Oaxaca, as well as in central and eastern states such as Morelos, San Luis Potosí and Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico.
Hours earlier, López Obrador had conducted a ceremony to remember the victims of the earthquakes of September 19, 1985 and 2017.
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