A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Mexico early Thursday, causing at least two deaths, damaging buildings and setting off landslides.
A family looks out at Mexico City from their apartment building rooftop after an earthquake early Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. The magnitude 6.8 quake struck at 1:19 a.m. local time, causing at least two deaths, damaging buildings and setting off landslides near the epicenter in the western state of Michoacan. – that hit three days earlierThe U.S.
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 highways. 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 two people died — a woman who fell down the stairs of her home and a man who had a heart attack. Residents huddled in streets as seismic alarms blared.The earthquake rattled an already jittery country. Monday's more powerful quake was t— in 1985, 2017 and now 2022. The 2017 and 2022 Sept. 19 quakes came very shortly after the annual earthquake drill conducted every Sept.
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