Massive 7.5 magnitude earthquake rocks Mexico’s Pacific coast

A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Mexico’s central Pacific coast yesterday, setting off a seismic alarm in the rattled capital on the anniversary of two earlier devastating quakes.

According to the US Geologic Survey, there were no immediate reports of significant damage from the quake that hit. It said the quake was centered 37 kilometers southeast of Aquila near the boundary of Colima and



Michoacan states and at a depth of 15.1 kilometers.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed that one person was killed in the port city of Manzanillo, Colima when a wall at a mall collapsed.

The US Tsunami Warning Center said that hazardous tsunami waves were possible for coasts within 300 kilometers of the epicenter.