A magnitude 7.5 earthquake shook Mexico‘s central Pacific coast on Monday, setting off an earthquake and tsunami alarm in the capital.
Buildings swayed and people were evacuated in downtown Mexico City.
This comes exactly five years to the day after a deadly tremor killed 370 people in the same region.
There were no immediate reports of damage from the quake that hit at 1.05pm local time, according to the U.S. Geologic Survey.
People rush on to the street after an earthquake in Mexico City on September 19, 2022
Alarms for the new murmurs came less than an hour after a quake alarms warbled in a nationwide simulation, marking major quakes that struck on the same date in 1985 and 2017.
The quake struck 29 miles south-southeast of La Placita de Morelos in the state of Michoacan and was at a depth of 6.2 miles, USGS said.
This comes after Hurricane Fiona made landfall on Puerto Rico on Sunday, wiping out power and plunging the island into darkness.
The U.S. territory was hit with life-threatening flash floods and mudslides as it was announced yesterday that the storm strengthened into hurricane status.
The deadly weather front, which has already been blamed for one death, was about 50 miles south of the city of Ponce with maximum sustained winds near 80 miles per hour, clearing the threshold for hurricane strength, the NHC said.
Torrential rains and mudslides were also forecast for the Dominican Republic as the storm progresses northwestward.