The new fatal victim was found by Civil protection in a city gym chamomile. “At this time, the staff is carrying out work to recover the victim,” he reported on Twitter, El Universal reported.
The first victim of the powerful was a woman who died outside a shopping mall, also in Manzanillo.
Mexico experienced more than 400 aftershocks
The National Seismological Service (SSN) It registered 408 aftershocks of the magnitude 7.7 earthquake until 8:00 p.m. local time. The largest of them was magnitude 5.3 with an epicenter in Colima.
Luis Quintanar Robles, Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexicoexplained that Monday’s earthquake occurred in a place near the place where another 8.1 tremor occurred on September 19, 1985, the deadliest in the country’s history, Excelsior reported.
The small shocks will continue in the coming days, however, they will only be perceived in the area near the epicenter, he stressed.
A country on alert
The tremor activated the seismic alert in Mexico, which rings a minute before the occurrence of this type of phenomenon, causing massive evacuations in the capital, Mexico DF., of 9.2 million inhabitants.
Some sectors of the city suffered power outages that affected a subway line, reported the mayor of the city, claudia sheinbaum, at a press conference. Meanwhile, authorities of Michoacan reported an injury due to falling glass and minor damage to homes and a rural hospital.
The seismic alert sounded less than an hour after millions of people participated in a national drill, which takes place every September 19 to encourage prevention.
This is the third earthquake recorded on September 19 in the history of Mexico since records have been kept after the one that occurred in 1985, with a magnitude of 8.1 and which left more than 10,000 dead, the vast majority in the capital.
On the same date in 2017, another 7.1 earthquake hit the center of the country, with a balance of 369 deaths. This Monday’s tremor occurred just nine minutes apart from the one five years ago.
“The occurrence of three earthquakes of magnitude greater than 7 on September 19 is a coincidence. There is no scientific reason to explain it,” said the National Seismological.
Source: Ambito
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