There were at least some early reports of damage to buildings from the quake, which struck at 1:05 p.m. local time, according to the US Geological Survey, which had initially estimated the magnitude at 7.5. It said the quake was centered 37 kilometers (23 miles) southeast of Aquila near the border of Colima and Michoacan states and at a depth of 15.1 kilometers (9.4 miles). President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Twitter that the Navy secretary told him that one person was killed in the port city of Manzanillo, Colima, when a wall in a shopping mall collapsed.

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Story continues below ad In Coalcoman, Michoacan, near the epicenter, buildings were damaged, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. “It started slow and then it was really strong and it went on and on until it started to subside,” said 16-year-old Coalcoman resident Carla Cardenas. Cardenas ran outside her family’s hotel and waited with neighbors. He said the hotel and some houses along the road showed cracks in the walls and parts of facades and roofs were broken. “At the hotel, the roof of the parking lot went up and fell to the ground, and there are cracks in the walls on the second floor,” Cardenas said. He said the city’s hospital was badly damaged, but so far he had not heard of any injuries. 2:13 Magnitude 7.4 earthquake in Mexico sends people to the streets 7.4 Earthquake in Mexico sends people fleeing to the streets – June 23, 2020 Mexico’s National Civil Defense Agency said that based on historical tsunami data in Mexico, fluctuations of up to 32 inches (82 centimeters) were possible in coastal water levels near the epicenter. The US Tsunami Warning Center said dangerous tsunami waves were possible for coastlines within 300 kilometers of the epicenter. Trending Stories

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Story continues below ad Irlanda Villa, from coastal Coahuayana, Michoacan, near the border with Colima, said some walls fell, but the big fear was that a tsunami would follow. “We were afraid that the sea would disappear, but in the end everything is fine.” Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum tweeted that there were no reports of damage in the capital Alerts about the new quake came less than an hour after a nationwide earthquake simulation flagged major earthquakes that occurred on the same date in 1985 and 2017. The 8.0-magnitude quake centered near the coast of Guerrero state on 1985 killed at least 9,500 people. More than 360 people died in the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck in 2017. “This is a coincidence” that this is the third earthquake of Sept. 19, said US Geological Survey seismologist Paul Earle. “There is no natural reason or statistical bias for earthquakes in any given month in Mexico.”

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Nor is there a season or month for major earthquakes anywhere in the world, Earle said. But there is one predictable thing: people look for and sometimes find coincidences that look like patterns. “We knew we were going to get that question as soon as it happened,” Earle said. “Sometimes there are just coincidences.” Story continues below ad The quake was not related to or caused by the drill about an hour earlier, nor was it linked to a devastating earthquake in Taiwan the day before, Earle said. 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. AP writers Christopher Sherman in Mexico City and Seth Borenstein in Washington contributed to this report. © 2022 The Canadian Press