Scenes after earthquake in Taiwan Province
Recently, earthquakes have occurred frequently. On September 5, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred in Luding County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province, with a depth of 16 kilometers. The earthquake killed a total of 93 people. On September 17 and 18, magnitude 6.5 and magnitude 6.9 earthquakes occurred in Taitung and Hualien areas of Taiwan Province, with a depth of 10 kilometers. As of 17:00 on the 19th, the earthquake had caused many casualties, and a large number of houses and bridges were damaged to varying degrees.
Xinhua News Agency Mexico City, September 19 (Reporter Zhu Yubo and Wu Hao) The Mexican National Earthquake Administration said on the 19th that a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurred in the western part of the country in the afternoon of the same day. Mexican President Lopez said the earthquake had killed one person.
According to information released by the Mexican National Earthquake Administration, the earthquake occurred at 13:5 local time on the 19th (2:5 Beijing time on the 20th). The epicenter is located 63 kilometers south of Koalkoman, Michoacan, with an epicenter depth of 15 kilometers. The magnitude of previously measured by the National Earthquake Agency of Mexico was 7.4, and was subsequently updated to 7.7.
On September 19 this year, another 7.7-magnitude earthquake occurred in Mexico , causing casualties and property losses. An hour before the earthquake, Mexico City held an exercise for the earthquake anniversary. Just after the 2022 earthquake early warning exercise ended, Mexico City once again sounded the earthquake early warning alarm, and then a real earthquake occurred.
Image Source: CCTV News Video Screenshot
Image Source: CCTV News Video Screenshot
Coincidentally, Mexico's history had a major earthquake on the same day in 1985 and 2017 (September 19), which were the 7.8 magnitude earthquakes in Mexico City and the 7.1 magnitude earthquakes in Puebla State, respectively.
Image source: CCTV News Video Screenshot
At 7:19 am on September 19, 1985, a magnitude 8.1 earthquake occurred at the bottom of the outer Pacific Ocean of the southwest coast of Mexico, and the shock wave arrived in Mexico City in about 2 minutes. The earthquake destroyed 30% of the buildings in the city center in 90 seconds. The earthquake was the strongest magnitude and the worst loss in Mexico's history. In this earthquake, the affected area was 32 square kilometers, 8,000 buildings were damaged to varying degrees, more than 7,000 people were killed, 11,000 injured, more than 300,000 people were left homeless, and economic losses reached US$1.1 billion. September 19 is called "the most tragic day in Mexico City".
Mexico earthquake, picture source from the Internet
On September 19, 2017, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred in central Mexico, causing more than 300 deaths and huge economic losses.
September 19th, it may be a nightmare in the hearts of the Mexican people. He called out their memories of the earthquake again and again, and this day can be used as their national disaster day.
In the current situation of frequent earthquakes and constant disasters, should shelve the disputes , strengthen international scientific and technological cooperation, enhance the ability to predict and early warning of earthquakes, and benefit the people of the world!
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