According to sources from Mexicos National Seismological Service and as per report the US Geological Survey triggering the quake alarm system in Mexico City and causing buildings to sway and there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the quake, which measured 7.2 in magnitude.
Meanwhile panicked residents flooded into the street, fearing a repeat of two earthquakes last September that caused buildings to collapse and killed 465 people combined. Moreover the officials in affected states said they were already inspecting buildings damaged by last year’s quakes, which are especially vulnerable to collapse. Further the latest tremor comes less than six months after last year’s devastating earthquakes in central and southern Mexico.
Earlier
on September 7 last year, an 8.2 earthquake shook the nation and killed 96
people, mostly in the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas. Presently the US Geological
Survey put the latest quake’s epicenter 37 kilometers northeast of Pinotepa de
Don Luis, in the southwestern state of Oaxaca and furthermore the US National
Weather service said it was not issuing a tsunami alert.
