Mexicans feel anxiety after hit with third earthquake on a Sept. 19
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As the parents of the children died when the school collapsed. The 2017 Mexico earthquake Mass was held in his memory, the earth began to shake again.
“No, not again! My God, not again!” He shouted when one 7.6 magnitude earthquake Two people were killed in the Pacific coast state of Colima on Monday, when the capital was shaken.
Mexico has had three powerful earthquakes on September 19 — 1985, 2017 and now 2022. The unfortunate coincidence has added to the anxiety for many. The last two earthquakes also came very soon after the annual earthquake drill held every September 19 to commemorate the devastating 1985 quake.
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Laura Velazquez, Mexico’s national civil defense coordinator, said Tuesday that two deaths in Colima were caused by the collapse of parts of buildings. Ten people were injured – nine in Colima and one in neighboring Michoacan.
He said that more than 200 buildings were damaged, including dozens of schools and health centers. Most of the damage occurred in the Pacific states, which were near the center of Michoacan. Some 20 Mexico City He said there was damage to buildings, but it was minor.
A man walks along a street in Colcomán, Mexico, on September 20, 2022, after it was damaged by an earthquake a day earlier.
(AP Photo/Armando Solis)
On the morning of September 19, 1985, an 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck the center, south, and west of the country, killing nearly 9,500 people.
“It’s really strange, but a lot of people don’t like this day already,” said call center coordinator Jorge Ornelas. He said that many of his acquaintances start worrying about an earthquake in September.
“If we keep thinking it’s going to shake every September 19, it’s going to happen every year, because what you think always happens,” Ornelas, 35, said.
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Xyoli Pérez-Campos, a researcher in the seismology department at the Geophysical Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said there was no physical reason for the coincidence of large earthquakes on the same day. Monday’s earthquake was the result of the “interaction of the Cocos Plate with the North American Plate,” which also produced the 1985 earthquake.
Five plates – North America, Pacific, Riviera, Caribbean and Cocos – all run under the territory of Mexico.
Perez-Campos said the plates break when it’s time for them to break. “What would they know about the calendar?”