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Major 7.5 magnitude earthquake hits Mexico’s southwest: USGS

A dynamic earthquake has shaken south and central Mexico, causing people to cut out buildings and office towers in the country’s capital, and setting off quake forewarn systems.

Crowds of people gathered on central Reforma Avenue in Mexico Megalopolis as the ground shook.

The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake’s preliminary magnitude at 7.5 and declared its epicenter was 2 kilometers southeast of Pinotepa in Oaxaca state. It had a depth of 43 kilometers.

A consequence 7.1 earthquake in central Mexico on Sept. 19 left 228 people unresponsive in the capital and 369 across the region.

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