It said the quake was centered 23 miles southeast of Aquila near the border of Colima and Michoacan states and at a depth of 9.4 miles. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said via Twitter that the Navy secretary told him that one person was killed in the port city of Manzanillo, Colima, when a wall collapsed at a shopping mall. The Michoacan Department of Public Safety said there were no immediate reports of significant damage in that state beyond some cracks in buildings in the town of Coalcoman. Mexico’s National Civil Defense Agency said that based on historical tsunami data in Mexico, fluctuations of up to 32 inches in coastal water levels near the epicenter were possible. The US Tsunami Warning Center said dangerous tsunami waves were possible for coastlines within 186 miles of the epicenter. Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum tweeted that there were no reports of damage in the capital. “I felt terrible,” said Karina Suarez, 37, after the building where she lives in the capital was evacuated, according to AFP. People stand in the street after an earthquake in Mexico City, Mexico, September 19, 2022. Reuters/Henry Romero The quake alerts came less than an hour after earthquake alerts were sounded in a national earthquake simulation that marked large earthquakes that struck on the same date in 1985 and 2017. In the 1985 earthquake, more than 10,000 people were killed and hundreds of buildings were destroyed. Humberto Garza stood outside a restaurant in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City holding his 3-year-old son. Like many milling outside after the earthquake, Garza said the earthquake alarm sounded so soon after the annual simulation that he wasn’t sure it was real. “I heard the alarm, but it sounded very far away,” he said. Outside the city’s environmental ombudsman’s office, dozens of employees waited. Some looked visibly shaken. Power was cut in parts of the city, including stop lights, disrupting the capital’s already notorious traffic.
