President Andrés Manuel López Obrador led the raising of the flag at half mast in memory of the people who lost their lives in the earthquakes of September 19, 1985 and 2017.
The president was accompanied by Marian’s secretary, José Rafael Ojeda Durán; the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez; the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López Hernández; the Head of Government of CDMX, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Head of Government of Mexico City.
A national drill will also be held today at 11:30 a.m. to commemorate one more anniversary of the 1985 and 2017 earthquakes.
The simulation hypothesis will be a magnitude 7.2 earthquake, with an epicenter 35 kilometers from Acatlán de Osorio, Puebla. The scenario will be of heavy damage in Mexico City, as well as the State of Mexico, Puebla and Morelos.
Read: Everything you need to know about the drill on September 19
The seismic alert will be reproduced through 12,826 loudspeakers at 11:30 a.m. in order to strengthen the population’s preparedness and response capacity, spread the culture of prevention and civil protection, and promote development of family self-protection plans and to strengthen the population’s preparedness and response capacities.
On 19, 1985, an earthquake was registered in the country; This occurred at 7:19 with a magnitude of 8.1 and with an epicenter in Guerrero, which left more than 20 thousand dead.
After 32 years, at 1:14 p.m. another earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 and with an epicenter in Morelos was registered, which left more than 7 thousand injured and 360 dead, of which 228 were in Mexico City, including 19 children. who died at the Rébasamen school.
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