A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck Mexico early Thursday, causing buildings to sway and leaving at least one person dead in the nation's capital.
The earthquake struck shortly after 1 a.m., just three days after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake shook western and central Mexico, killing two.
The U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday's earthquake, like Monday's, was centered in the western state of Michoacan near the Pacific coast. The epicenter was about 29 miles (46 kilometers) south-southwest of Aguililla, Michoacan, at a depth of about 15 miles (24.1 kilometers).
Michoacan's state government said the quake was felt throughout the state. It reported damage to a building in the city of Uruapan and some landslides on the highway that connects Michoacan and Guerrero with the coast.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said via Twitter that it was an aftershock from Monday's quake and was also felt in the states of Colima, Jalisco and Guerrero.
Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said via Twitter that one woman died in a central neighborhood when she fell down the stairs of her home. Residents were huddled in streets as seismic alarms blared.
The earthquake rattled an already jittery country. Monday's more powerful quake was the third major earthquake to strike on Sept. 19 — in 1985, 2017 and now 2022. The 2017 and 2022 Sept. 19 quakes came very shortly after the annual earthquake drill conducted every Sept. 19 to commemorate the devastating 1985 temblor that killed some 9,500 people.
1985 quake in Mexico DF ... they are now saying 9500 dead?!!! Just wow! Keeps going down. Conservative estimates in Mexico city, IN 1985, were 200,000+ dead. At the time, major (USA) media reported 20,000 or so, or about 1/10th the true amount. 50 story SKYSCRAPERS collapsed! Friends of mine tried to unbury their loved ones from the rubble. Six months LATER I was in Cancun, and Mexico city still was out of power/phone lines down. The 1985 tierramoto traumatized so many, just hate to see the dwindling #'s, an insult to those who suffered
A small micro burst of earthquakes on the Northern tip of the Cocos plate. Interestingly this plate is destined to disappear, its subducting under 2 plates, the North American plate and Caribbean Plate. It's only 23 million years old, part remant from a previous plate.
There been a steady migration of earthquakes heading North along the fault line that sits on the Eastern side of the Pacific ocean.
Unfortunately Mexico has this plate on its Western seaboard and earthquakes here are likely to intensify in future.
I saw on some stupid news site that apparently this quake caused some pretty significant wave activity in some cave pond out in Death Valley, through some "quirk of geology", however the article that went on in some detail about the possible effects this may have on the fish of the cave pond, failed to expound on "quirk of geology".
Also next chapter of Taurus/Scorpio Eclipse Season gets activated.
(Taurus Scorps Leos Aquas be mindful)