the Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, announced the first death from the 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Colima, a state in the west of the country, in Michoacán. According to a telephone conversation between the president and Commander Ojeda, a wall fell on the victim in a shopping center.
“Admiral José Rafael Ojeda Durán, Secretary of the Navy, informed me that a person died from the fall of a fence in a shopping center in Manzanillo, Colima,” AMLO wrote on his social networks.
EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO
An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale (preliminary) shook the center of Mexico just an hour after their national drill to commemorate two powerful earthquakes that left thousands dead in 1985 and 2017. Thus, the authorities reported it.
The National Seismological detailed on Twitter that the epicenter was located 59 km south of Coalcoman, in the state of Michoacán, on the Pacific coast.
VIDEO OF THE EARTHQUAKE
TSUNAMI ALERT
According to the US Tsunami Warning Center, there is a tsunami threat to the coasts of Michoacán and Colima. earthquake epicenters.
WHAT HAPPENED IN MEXICO IN 2017?
A day like today, 5 years ago, an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 claimed the lives of 369 people in Mexico. The most affected places were the states of Mexico, Morelos, Puebla, Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas. In the capital, 228 people died.
The earthquake occurred days after the magnitude 8.2 earthquake with an epicenter in the southern state of Chiapas, which had left 98 dead.