6.8 magnitude earthquake shakes Mexico, 2 dead

Thursday’s quake was centered at a depth of 15 miles (24.1 km) in a sparsely populated area 31 miles (50 km) south-southwest of Aguililla, Michoacan, the US Geological Survey said.

The Michoacan state government said tremors were felt throughout the state. It reported damage to a building in the city of Europan and some mudslides on highways.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said via Twitter that it was an aftershock of Monday’s earthquake, which was also felt in the states of Colima, Jalisco and Guerrero.

Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said via Twitter that two people died – a woman who fell down the stairs of her home and a man who suffered a heart attack. Residents flocked to the streets as earthquake alarms sounded.

It also knocked out power in some areas, although service was soon restored.

The earthquake shook the already troubled country. A more powerful earthquake on Monday The third major earthquake occurred on September 19 — 1985, 2017 and now 2022. The September 19 earthquakes of 2017 and 2022 each come shortly after the annual earthquake drills on September 19 to commemorate the devastating 1985 earthquake that killed nearly 9,500 people.