Mexico City International Airport (AICM) announced that it resumed operations around 10 minutes after an earthquake of magnitude 7.4 was recorded in central Mexico at 1:05 p.m.
The air terminal explained that after activating the review protocols, no damage was detected in its facilities.
“After the earthquake a few minutes ago, operations resumed at 1:16 p.m. without reports of damage to the two terminal buildings, or tracks. Nervous crises occurred in some people, who were treated by the medical services and brigade members of the #AICM “, detailed the authorities of the AICM through your account Twitter.
#SICTInforma: Immediately, a supervision plan was established to preliminarily evaluate the state of the federal highway network, the main bridges, the country’s railway network, and the airport. 1/2
– SICT Mexico (@SCT_mx)
September 19, 2022
Less than an hour after an earthquake drill was carried out as part of the commemoration of the 1985 and 2017 earthquakes, a strong tremor unleashed panic in several sectors of the capital and other states in the center of the country, leaving until now a balance of a deceased person.
“One person died from the fall of a fence (wall) of a shopping center in Manzanillo (Colima state),” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Twitter.
Admiral José Rafael Ojeda Durán, Secretary of the Navy, informed me that a person died due to the fall of a fence in a shopping center in Manzanillo, Colima. pic.twitter.com/CmOsWjei0j
– Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_)
September 19, 2022
The National Seismological Servicewhich originally placed the magnitude at 6.8, detailed on Twitter that the epicenter was located 59 km south of Coalcomán (state of Michoacán), on the Pacific coast.
Civil protection ruled out the risk of a tsunami.
“So far no damage has been reported,” the head of the Mexico City government, Claudia Sheinbaum, wrote on her Twitter account.
Authorities in the state of Michoacán, where the earthquake originated, reported no casualties, while residents reported minor material damage.
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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 which is 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 that 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.
The tremor of this Monday occurred just nine minutes apart from that of 2017.
Much of the Mexican capital is located on an old lake, so the subsoil is muddy and telluric waves are more intense than on firm ground.
The 2017 earthquake was of a smaller magnitude than this Monday, but the epicenter was about 160 kilometers from the capital, while today’s Monday was about 600 km, according to distances by road.
(With information from AFP.)
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