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A strong earthquake rattled confederate and cardinal Mexico connected Friday, sidesplitting astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic and injuring several, but causing nary superior damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.5. Its epicenter was adjacent the municipality of San Marcos successful the confederate authorities of Guerrero, adjacent the Pacific coastal edifice municipality of Acapulco.
It occurred astatine a extent of 21.7 miles, 2.5 miles north-northwest of Rancho Viejo, Guerrero. The quake was felt much than 250 miles distant successful Mexico City.
Residents and tourists successful Mexico City and Acapulco rushed into the streets erstwhile the shaking began.
Tourists stay extracurricular aft evacuating their hotels during a 6.5 magnitude earthquake successful Acapulco, Mexico, connected Jan. 2, 2026.
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Karen Gomez, a 47-year-old bureau idiosyncratic surviving connected the 13th level of an flat gathering successful Mexico City, told Agence France-Presse that a siren woke her up.
"I woke up successful terror. My cellphone alert said it was a almighty earthquake," she said.
The civilian defence bureau reported assorted landslides astir Acapulco and connected different highways successful the state.
Local officials said a 60-year-old antheral successful Mexico City died of his injuries aft falling portion evacuating his second-floor flat successful the capital, AFP reported.
Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada confirmed the decease successful a connection posted connected social media. In a abstracted connection connected societal media, she said astatine slightest 12 radical were injured successful the quake.
A tourer is assisted aft being evacuated from a edifice during a 6.5 magnitude earthquake successful Acapulco, Mexico, connected Jan. 2, 2026.
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President Claudia Sheinbaum, whose archetypal property briefing of the caller twelvemonth was interrupted by the quake, said she spoke with Guerrero's Gov. Evelyn Salgado, who told her determination was nary superior harm reported.
José Raymundo Díaz Taboada, a doc and quality rights defender who lives connected 1 of the peaks ringing Acapulco, said helium heard a beardown rumbling sound and each the vicinity dogs began barking.
"In that infinitesimal the seismic alert went disconnected connected my cellphone," helium said, "and past the shaking began to consciousness beardown with a batch of noise."
He said the shaking was lighter than successful immoderate erstwhile quakes and helium had prepared a backpack of essentials to beryllium acceptable to permission arsenic the aftershocks continued.
He said helium had been incapable to scope immoderate friends who unrecorded on the Costa Chica, southeast of Acapulco, due to the fact that communications were cut.
People question information successful a parking batch aft a 6.5 magnitude earthquake successful Mexico City, connected Jan. 2, 2026.
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Mexico is situated betwixt 5 tectonic plates and is 1 of the world's astir seismically progressive countries.
In January 2025, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake shook a portion of southwest Mexico. The tremor was astir 5 miles from Coalcoman de Vazquez Pallares, a municipality of astir 20,000 people, astir 372 miles westbound of Mexico City. The quake struck astatine a extent of 53 miles.
In 1985, an 8.1 magnitude quake centered connected the Pacific seashore ravaged overmuch of cardinal and confederate Mexico, sidesplitting thousands and causing terrible harm successful Mexico City.
A 7.1-magnitude quake connected Sept. 19, 2017, killed 369 people, astir of them successful the capital.
Exactly 5 years later, on the aforesaid day successful 2022, cardinal Mexico was deed by different quake, conscionable hours aft millions of radical had taken portion successful a mock earthquake information exercise. The repercussions of the 7.6 magnitude quake extended arsenic acold arsenic 1,500 miles north, where four-foot-tall waves began churning inside a Death Valley cave called Devils Hole.
AFP contributed to this report.
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