Overview

• Authorities simulated a magnitude 8.1 earthquake centered in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, with modeled effects across 18 states, the Seismological Service reported.
• Mexico City sounded 27,880 C5 loudspeakers at noon as the alert also went out via cell broadcast to phones, radio and television, according to the city government.
• The Security and Citizen Protection Secretariat installed the National Emergency Committee to synchronize rescue, medical care, supplies and service restoration across institutions.
• States and municipalities reported evacuations and exercises, including more than 900 people at a Centro Cívico, over 300 at the Government Palace and 815 in Plaza de Armas in Querétaro, and more than 600 participants with 35 civil protection staff in El Marqués.
• Lawmakers praised preparedness gains but challenged official reconstruction claims, citing discrepancies with transparency data, while Sonora prosecutors pursued charges in the assault on two Hermosillo police officers, including the arrest of an adult suspect described as a boxer.