At least 1 dead after Mexico's Pacific coast shaken by magnitude 7.6 earthquake
Source: CBS News
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico's central Pacific coast on Monday, killing at least one person and setting off a seismic alarm in the rattled capital on the anniversary of two earlier devastating quakes. There were no immediate reports of significant damage from the quake that hit at 1:05 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which had initially put the magnitude at 7.5.
It said the quake was centered 23 miles southeast of Aquila near the boundary of Colima and Michoacan states and at a depth of 9.4 miles. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said via Twitter that the secretary of the Navy told him one person was killed in the port city of Manzanillo, Colima, when a wall at a mall collapsed.
Michoacan's Public Security department said there were no immediate reports of significant damage in that state beyond some cracks in buildings in the town of Coalcoman.
Mexico's National Civil Defense agency said that based on historic data of tsunamis in Mexico, variations of as much as 32 inches were possible in coastal water levels near the epicenter. The U.S. Tsunami Warning Center said that hazardous tsunami waves were possible for coasts within 186 miles of the epicenter.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-earthquake-pacific-coast-2022-09-19/
Short article. Now updated.
Link to tweet
·
Sep 19, 2022
@USGS_Quakes
·
Follow
Notable quake, preliminary info: M 7.6 - 37 km SE of Aquila, Mexico https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000i9bw?utm_sourcedlvr.it&utm_mediumtwitter&utm_campaignusgs_quakes
USGS Earthquakes
@USGS_Quakes
·
Follow
This is the same earthquake that was tweeted 25 min ago. The magnitude and location were updated as more data arrived.
2:45 PM · Sep 19, 2022
As a note, I went on vacation to Mexico City and Acapulco back in 1989 and there was still rubble around Mexico City and repairs continued to be done after their 1985 quake.
Article being updated.
Previous update and original headline: Mexico's Pacific coast shaken by magnitude 7.6 earthquake minutes after alarms mark anniversary of two major temblors -
It said the quake was centered 23 miles southeast of Aquila near the boundary of Colima and Michoacan states and at a depth of 9.4 miles. Michoacan's Public Security department said there were no immediate reports of significant damage in that state beyond some cracks in buildings in the town of Coalcoman.
Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum also tweeted that there were no reports of damage in the capital. "It felt terrible," Karina Suarez, 37, said after evacuating the building where she lives in the capital, according to AFP. Alarms for the quake came less than an hour after quake alarms warbled in a nationwide earthquake simulation marking major quakes that struck on the same date in 1985 and 2017.
In the 1985 quake, more than 10,000 people were killed and hundreds of buildings were destroyed.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Original article -
It said the quake was centered 23 miles southeast of Aquila near the boundary of Colima and Michoacan states and at a depth of 9.4 miles.
Alarms for the quake came less than an hour after quake alarms warbled in a nationwide earthquake simulation marking major quakes that struck on the same date in 1985 and 2017.
Also Tsunami Warning issued -
Brandon Miller, Juan Carlos Paz, Karol Suarez, Florencia Trucco and Hande Atay
Published 3:24 PM EDT, Mon September 19, 2022
CNN -- A 7.6-magnitude earthquake has struck just off the southwestern coast off Mexico, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). The Tsunami Warning Center has issued a tsunami alert warning of potentially hazardous waves striking Mexico immediately.
There are no known casualties or damage yet recorded in Mexico City, according to the city's mayor, Claudia Sheinbaum.
The USGS provided more detail, saying that the quake struck about 37 kilometers south east of the city of Aquila, in Michoacan state. The quake depth was about 15.1 kilometers, the USGS also reported.
The news comes on the fifth anniversary of the 2017 earthquake that killed 216 people in Mexico City.
(snip)
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/19/americas/tsunami-warning-follows-major-quake-in-mexico-intl-latam/index.html
= new reply since forum marked as read
No shit! 
Thanks for the compiled video of clips! 
When I was in Mexico City, there were many buildings that were "still being repaired" from the '85 quake (in a number of cases, IIRC, with scaffolding and whatnot setup on the roof) - where some of it I had heard was because by dragging it out, they were able to forestall paying full property taxes on the buildings when in that state of construction/repair.
When that 5.8/5.9 earthquake hit central VA back in 2011 and did so on an old fault that ran all the way up the east coast, we felt it pretty strongly here in Philly and it actually did some damage to the Washington Monument and National Cathedral in D.C.
I was at my desk up on the 9th floor of my (old historic) building and all of sudden the whole building was creaking and rocking along a N/S line (my back was to a window that faced due north and the chair was moving forward and back).
All the office towers downtown (as well as our federal buildings) were evacuated and some let employees go for the day. The rest of us returned to finish out the work day but there was quite a bit of inspection of the buildings across the city - particularly those by the Delaware River as so much of that area has been built on land created from what was once a much wider river centuries ago but was filled in to add piers, warehouses, manufacturing companies, highways and railways, as well has hotels and apartment buildings.
