Overview
- Mexico’s seismic alert sounded shortly before 8 a.m. local time, prompting evacuations across the capital and briefly interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum’s morning briefing at Palacio Nacional.
- Officials confirmed two deaths — a man in Mexico City’s Benito Juárez during evacuation and a woman near the epicenter in San Marcos — along with at least 12 injured in the capital and additional injuries in Guerrero.
- Infrastructure impacts included power outages, a substation fire controlled in central Mexico City, rockfalls and road blockages in Guerrero, and minor damage in medical facilities in Acapulco and Chilpancingo.
- Emergency protocols were activated across multiple states, with Mexico City deploying Cóndor helicopters for aerial checks and teams conducting building inspections and service restorations.
- The Servicio Sismológico Nacional measured the quake at magnitude 6.5 with slight revisions reported by some outlets, and authorities logged hundreds of aftershocks — more than 420 by midday — with the strongest around magnitude 4.7 and shaking felt widely across central and southern states.