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MexicoCity shaken by magnitude 7.6 earthquake

20 September 2022
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2022-09-20 11:16

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico's central Pacific coast on Monday, on the anniversary of two earlier devastating quakes.At least one person died.

A seismic alarm sounded in the rattled capital.While on the phone with Colima State governor Indira Vizcaíno Silva, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said 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.

There were at least some early reports of damage to buildings from the quake, which hit at 1:05 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geologic Survey, which had initially put the magnitude at 7.5.It said the quake was centered 37 kilometers southeast of Aquila near the boundary of Colima and Michoacan states and at a depth of 15.1 kilometers.

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