Mexico’s tremendous earthquake registered a staggering 7.7 on the Richter scale. One person was killed due to the earthquake, which also caused tsunami cautions. Many coastal regions have already experienced flooding. Initial reports of the Mexico earthquake, which struck on September 19 at 1.05 p.m. local time, include structural damage.
Report by U.S. Geological Society
According to the United States Geographical Society, the earthquake’s epicenter struck roughly 37 kilometers southeast of Aquila, which is close to the border between the states of Colima and Michoacan. The earthquake was also 15.1 kilometers deep. On September 19, Mexico will experience an earthquake for the third time in 2022. Terrible earthquakes also shook the Central American country in 1985 and 2017.
Actual Earthquake Magnitude
The 2022 earthquake’s magnitude was approximately 7.6. According to CNN, it is now 7.7 magnitudes. As soon as the earthquake hit Mexico, the US Tsunami Warning Center warned that dangerous storm surges could strike coastal areas within 300 kilometers of the epicenter. Paul Earle, a seismologist with the US Geological Survey, told Nine News that the connection of the earthquake’s timing with two other tragedies was just coincidental. He asserted that Mexico has no physical cause or statistical bias favoring earthquakes in any particular month.
On the fifth anniversary of the 2017 earthquake that killed 216 people in Mexico City, the most recent earthquake in Mexico occurred. Carla Cárdenas, a teenager from Coalcoman, not far from the earthquake’s epicenter, detailed the moment the Earth began to quiver.
