Mexico Town: A powerful earthquake jolted Mexico on Thursday, sending folks speeding out into the streets of the capital in the course of the evening, days after a formidable tremor left no less than two folks useless.

The epicenter of the 6.9-magnitude quake used to be close to the Pacific coast, 84 kilometers (52 miles) south of Coalcoman within the western state of Michoacan, the nationwide seismological company reported.

America Geological Survey (USGS) estimated the magnitude at 6.8.

Michoacan have been hit by way of a formidable magnitude 7.7-earthquake on Monday that broken a number of thousand structures and sparked panic a number of hundred kilometers away in Mexico Town.

The newest quake once more caused early caution alarms within the capital at 1:16 am (0616 GMT), inflicting folks to evacuate their properties, some nonetheless wearing pajamas and wearing their puppy canine.

Mexico Town Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum stated reliable helicopters had flown over town and that there have been no preliminary studies of destruction.

“Up to now there’s no injury within the town after the earthquake,” she tweeted.

The quake hit at a intensity of 12 kilometers, in line with the nationwide seismological company, whilst USGS estimated the intensity at 24 kilometers, positioned about 410 kilometers from Mexico Town.

Monday’s tremor got here not up to an hour after thousands and thousands of folks in Mexico Town participated in emergency drills at the anniversary of 2 fatal earthquakes in 1985 and 2017.

On September 19, 1985, an 8.1-magnitude quake killed greater than 10,000 folks and destroyed loads of structures.

At the anniversary of that earthquake in 2017, a 7.1 quake left round 370 folks useless, basically within the capital.