{"id":488541,"date":"2026-01-03T03:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/488541\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T03:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:29:10","slug":"earthquake-with-6-5-magnitude-rattles-southern-and-central-mexico-killing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/488541\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake with 6.5 magnitude rattles southern and central Mexico killing 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

MEXICO CITY \u2014 A strong earthquake rattled southern and central Mexico<\/a> on Friday, interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum \u2019s<\/a> first press briefing of the new year as seismic alarms sounded and leaving at least two people dead.<\/p>\n

The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.5 and its epicenter was near the town of San Marcos in the southern state of Guerrero near the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco<\/a>, according to Mexico \u2019s national seismological agency. There were more than 500 aftershocks.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s civil defense agency reported various landslides around Acapulco and on other highways in the state.<\/p>\n

Guerrero Gov. Evelyn Salgado said that a 50-year-old woman living in a small community near the epicenter died when her home collapsed. Authorities also said that a hospital in Chilpancingo, Guerrero\u2019s capital, suffered major structural damage and various patients were evacuated.<\/p>\n

Residents and tourists in Mexico City and Acapulco rushed into the streets when the shaking began. Mexico City<\/a> Mayor Clara Brugada said that one person died after suffering an apparent medical emergency followed by a fall while evacuating a building.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.7 miles (35 kilometers), 2.5 miles north-northwest of Rancho Viejo, Guerrero, which is in the mountains about 57 miles northeast of Acapulco.<\/p>\n

Sheinbaum resumed her press briefing a short time after the quake.<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Raymundo D\u00edaz Taboada, a doctor and human rights defender who lives on one of the peaks ringing Acapulco, said he heard a strong rumble noise<\/a> and all the neighborhood dogs began barking.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that moment the seismic alert went off on my cellphone,\u201d he said, \u201cand then the shaking began to feel strong with a lot of noise.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the shaking was lighter than in some previous quakes and he had prepared a backpack of essentials to be ready to leave as the aftershocks continued.<\/p>\n

He said he had been unable to reach some friends who live along the Costa Chica southeast of Acapulco because communications were cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEXICO CITY \u2014 A strong earthquake rattled southern and central Mexico on Friday, interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum \u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":488542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[50,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-488541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115829051976765715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}