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People in the streets of Mexico City after the earthquake this Thursday.

Mexico suffers a new tremor after Monday's earthquake: at least two dead

An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 activated this Thursday the seismic alert in central Mexico, after the earthquake of magnitude 7.7 that shook the country on September 19. According to the Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City, two people have lost their lives.

The first of the victims is a woman who hit her head after falling down the stairs of her home in the Doctores neighborhood. The second is a man who, after activating the alarms, suffered a heart attack in the town of Education, as reported by the aforementioned institution.

The phenomenon occurred at 1:16 am (6:16 GMT) with an epicenter 81 kilometers south of Coalcomán, Michoacán. At that same point, the one of last Monday was also raised, according to the National Seismological Service (SSN), which had first registered a magnitude of 6.5 and then adjusted it to 6.9.

"We had a replica of the earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 with an epicenter in Coalcomán. It was felt in Michoacán, Colima, Jalisco, Guerrero, and Mexico City. So far there is no report of damage," wrote the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, on their social networks.

Tuvimos una réplica del sismo con magnitud de 6.9 con epicentro en Coalcomán. Se sintió en Michoacán, Colima, Jalisco, Guerrero y Ciudad de México. Hasta ahora no hay reporte de daños. pic.twitter.com/u6qMfzd2eE

— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) September 22, 2022

In Mexico City, the seismic alert was activated, so hundreds of thousands of citizens took to the streets to protect themselves from the tremor.

Several tremors recorded

The phenomenon occurs after the earthquake that shook Mexico on Monday, less than an hour after the national drill that takes place every September 19 to commemorate the earthquakes of 1985 and 2017, which occurred on the same date and are considered the most destructive in history. recent.

Since the last earthquake on Monday, which left two dead and 10 injured in western Mexico, there have been more than 1,000 aftershocks, and it is estimated that this Thursday's was the largest. The Government of Mexico City activated surveillance protocols but ruled out damage so far. 

"Omar García Harfuch (Secretary of Security of the capital) informs me that the condors (drones) that fly over the City have no record of damage in the City, so far. I continue to report," said the head of the Government of Mexico City Claudia Sheinbaum on Twitter. More official information is expected at President López Obrador's morning press conference at 7:00 local time (12:00 GMT).

The earthquakes in September have caused a stir in Mexico, where the tremor of September 19, 1985, left an estimated 20,000 dead, and in 2017 about 370.

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