Powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake rocks Mexico with tsunami warning issued

Buildings swayed and staff had been evacuated in downtown Mexico Metropolis on Monday (Image: Getty/Reuters)

At the very least one individual is lifeless after a magnitude 7.6 earthquake rocked Mexico’s central Pacific coast on the anniversary of two different devastating quakes.

It hit 23 miles south east of Aquila, close to the boundary of Colima and Michoacan states, at a depth of 9.4 miles, the US Geologic Survey stated.

A warning from The US Tsunami Warning Centre stated hazardous tsunami waves are doable for coasts inside 186 miles of the epicentre.

Buildings swayed and staff had been evacuated at 1.05pm native time.

The collapse of a wall at a buying centre took one life within the port metropolis of Manzanillo, Colima, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stated the secretary of the navy had instructed him.

Electrical energy was knocked out in components of Mexico Metropolis, with site visitors lights outages inflicting journey chaos.

However there have been no quick studies of injury within the capital, based on Mexico Metropolis mayor Claudia Sheinbaum.

In a wierd coincidence, tremors have rumbled on the anniversary of two lethal quakes in Mexico.

It hit close to the coast on the border area of the states of Michoacan and Colima at a depth of round 15 km (9 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) stated (Image: Metro/Reuters)

Individuals embrace as they collect on the road after an earthquake, in Mexico Metropolis (Image: Reuters)

A girl speaks on her telephone after the realm shook (Image: AFP through Getty Pictures)

A girl is comforted by a person on September 19, 2022 (Image: AFP through Getty Pictures)

Civil safety, fireplace corp and volunteers participate in an earthquake drill in Mexico Metropolis (Image: Carlos Tischler/Eyepix Group/Shutterstock)

Topos Azteca rescuers and members of the civil society take part in a ceremony within the Tlatelolco neighbourhood for the anniversary of the 1985 and 2017 lethal earthquakes in Mexico Metropolis on September 19, 2022 (Image: AFP through Getty Pictures)

It got here on the very same date of two different earthquakes within the nation (Image: Reuters)

Hundreds of individuals had been killed in a quake on September 19, 1985 and greater than 350 died in one other on September 19, 2017.

Photos from earlier right this moment present individuals holding a ceremony to recollect the victims.

The earthquake on Monday additionally got here solely a half an hour after the annual drill concluded.

An alarm had rang out from nearly 14,000 loudspeakers in 9 areas alerting residents to hypothetical seismic waves.

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