Overview
- The 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck at 7:58 a.m. local time near San Marcos, Guerrero, activating seismic alerts nationwide and briefly interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum’s morning conference in Palacio Nacional.
- Mexico City authorities reported one fatality during an evacuation and at least 12 people injured, with emergency protocols deployed across the capital.
- Preliminary surveys and police helicopter overflights found no widespread structural collapse, as civil protection teams continued inspections across the city’s 16 boroughs.
- Localized incidents included fallen utility poles and trees and a transformer-related fire in the historic center, plus power outages that the Federal Electricity Commission said it was progressively restoring.
- Officials reported small aftershocks, the largest around magnitude 4.2, as monitoring and infrastructure evaluations continued in the hours after the main quake.