Over 4,000 people have been evacuated and a state of emergency has been declared in 36 municipalities Four died in a mudslide in the municipalicyt of Ometepec In the same area one man was swept away by a swollen river The other death occurred in Tlacoachistlahuaca Bestias buscando refugio para poder sobrevivir, ante la Tormenta Tropical Trudy. Ometepec, Gro. @primerotuimagen pic.twitter.com/T8MPggCyAj — Efrain Montero (@Pinmontero) October 19, 2014 Tropical Storm Trudy made landfall on 18 October near Marquelia In its wake remains a slow moving area of low pressure that according to Mexico’s weather service (Servicio Meteorológico Nacional) is likely to bring further heavy rainfall of between 15 mm to 30 mm of rain per hour early on 20 October 2014 in Guerrero and Oaxaca Heavy rainfall is also expected in Veracruz Richard Davies is the founder of floodlist.com and reports on flooding news Cookies | Privacy | Contacts © Copyright 2025 FloodList An earthquake has struck Mexico in the region of Guerrero mere minutes after Colombia was hit with a forceful 6.7-magnitude tremor was qualified as a 5.3-magnitude quake following initial reports Unlike many quakes that have hit Mexico recently the epicenter of this one was centered on land as opposed to out at sea The quake was centralized 17 miles outside of Ometepec and eight miles from the neighboring town of Xochistlahuaca with the most recent taking place in January The small 4.3 quake was centered 14 miles northwest of San Pedro Pochutla The region also had a major quake around the same time last year It was a 6.3-magnitude quake that had an epicenter located 100 miles southeast of Chilpancingo A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck southwest Mexico damaging hundreds of homes and sending panicked residents out onto the streets of the capital The quake struck on Tuesday south of the Pacific resort of Acapulco Initially it had estimated the magnitude at 7.9 Interior Minister Alejandro Poire said 11 people had been injured Guerrero governor Angel Aguirre told state radio that some 1,600 houses in four municipalities of the coastal region known as the Costa Chica had been damaged He said that authorities were checking schools and public buildings around Ometepec Many houses showed signs of damage in Ometepec while patients at the main hospital were evacuated into a garden The White House said President Barack Obama's 13-year-old daughter Malia we can confirm that Malia Obama is safe and was never in danger," said Kristina Schake telephone and power lines were cut off and traffic lights stopped working as office workers rushed onto the streets Local media reported one person was injured when a pedestrian bridge collapsed on an empty bus in the north of the city It was one of the strongest quakes to shake the capital since 1985 when an 8.1-magnitude earthquake left between 6,000 and 30,000 dead according to officials and rescue organizations "We were told to evacuate," office worker Francisco Bernal said as he stood in the street "The earthquake was strong but now we're prepared "I stood up when I saw the lights moving," said Ana Fernandez another office worker in the central Roma district "Our boss told us to get out and we followed instructions not to shout I was really scared but I made myself stay calm." German tourist Gernot Nahrung said he was in the city's Chapultepec park and did not feel the swaying movement of the quake Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrand said no serious damage was visible during a helicopter survey The mayor's Twitter account said the water system and other "strategic services" experienced no problems Some windows broke at the city's international airport and the monorail between the two terminals was stopped temporarily The quake's epicenter was 12.4 miles (20 kilometers) deep 100 miles (162 kilometers) from the tourist city of Oaxaca As the sun sets on the Pacific Coast town of Ometepec, Mexico, musicians and fans gather on a rooftop to enjoy boleros. The crowd of about 70 people listens attentively to Las Hermanas García perform "Que Sepan Todos." Most of the audience is made up of teenagers and the García sisters take note was born in Cuba and migrated around the world It took root in Mexico and became extremely popular in the 1950s Laura notes part of the excitement to perform is because they are "helping to spread the bolero." Celia says boleros are part of their DNA "It's a genre that we heard since we were in my mother's womb," Celia says "This region has always been known to be very romantic My father used to sing serenades to my mother and now we listen to this music." He says his daughters started singing together before they were 10 "I coached them a little bit with their voices but really they're natural singers," Mariano explains Celia took the first voice and Laura second and suddenly they were making music." The legacy of Carrillo and other composers of his generation is still felt today across the country Mexico City has a boleros-only radio station and national pop stars have made boleros a regular part of their repertoires says boleros are so popular in the Costa Chica that you can go to any party and hear a bolero group those boleros from that period have been transmitted from one generation to the next this tradition will continue for a long time," Estrada says The boleros have become such a big part of people's lives, they take them wherever they go. "They're listening to Radio Ometepec [and] to the García sisters in the U.S.," Estrada says There are a lot of people there who are from all these towns along the Coast Just imagine how they feel being so far away from the Costa Chica and listening to songs from here." The Garcia sisters are in the process of rehearsing songs they plan to record for their second album. This time, they want to sing boleros from other coasts of Latin America. And their music is spreading even further. 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firefighters.MEXICO CITY (AP) — A strong 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit central and southern Mexico on Tuesday damaging some 800 homes near the epicenter and swaying tall buildings and spreading fear and panic hundreds of miles away in the capital of Mexico City One of the strongest to shake Mexico since the deadly 1985 temblor that killed thousands in Mexico City Tuesday’s earthquake hit hardest in border area of southern Oaxaca and Guerrero states where Guerrero officials confirmed that some 800 homes had been damaged Hours after the shaking at noon local time there were still no reports of death or serious injury magnitude-5.1 aftershock was felt in the capital and several other aftershocks near the epicenter in a mountainous rural region about 15 miles (25 kilometers) from the epicenter was headed there to survey the damage and ordered emergency crews and civil protection to the area to help with the damage The state did not say how many were displaced frightened workers and residents poured into the streets of the capital Telephone service was down in the city and throughout the area where the quake was felt and some neighborhoods were without power according to Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard who set up a hotline for people to report damage A pedestrian bridge collapsed on an empty transit bus About 40 passengers were stranded for a short time on the Mexico City airport air train The airport closed for a time but officials said there was no runway damage and they resumed operations was evacuated from the 11th floor on the Angel Tower office building “I thought it was going to pass rapidly but the walls began to thunder and we decided to get out,” she said was badly damaged in 1985 when an 8.0 earthquake killed at least 10,000 people Guerrero has suffered several severe earthquakes including a 7.9 in 1957 which killed an estimated 68 people Tuesday’s quake was the strongest shaking felt in the capital since a magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck Officials said at least three people died in Guerrero but there were no reports of widespread damage hotel manager Marco Antonio Estrada also reported shaken-up guests but no major damage He said it was longest and strongest he ever felt but we didn’t see anything fall,” said Irma Ortiz and that the quake shook them side-to-side Geological Survey set the preliminary magnitude of the first quake at 7.4 and said the epicenter was 11 miles underground was reported and safe while on vacation with a school group in Oaxaca Groups of women hugged and cried at Mexico City’s Angel of Independence monument where hundreds of people evacuated from office buildings said they never had felt such a strong earthquake Others typed ferociously on their Blackberries Mexico City’s airport was closed for a short time but there was no damage to runways and operations were returning to normal Sylvia Valencia was teaching Spanish to five adult students at the Vinigulaza language school when the earthquake hit it was strong and it was long.” After the shaking stopped nor outside in the historical center of the city had just flown in from Mexico City when it hit But she said that she saw no damage at the airport and no one was hurt She says one building in downtown Oaxaca appears to be damaged and has been evacuated Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, (updated 8/1/2024) and acknowledgement of our Privacy Policy, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/1/2025) © 2025 Advance Local Media LLC. All rights reserved (About Us) The material on this site may not be reproduced except with the prior written permission of Advance Local Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site YouTube's privacy policy is available here and YouTube's terms of service is available here Ad Choices An image circulated online via social media purports to show former vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden kissing a young girl on the cheek, typically accompanied by comments labeling the picture as "sick," "disgusting," and inappropriate: Whatever one might think of the propriety of the pictured activity, it has nothing to do with any U.S. politician. It's actually an image of Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, taken from a March 2020 video showing him greeting enthusiasts outside a hotel in Ometepec in south-western Mexico: Here's another screenshot from the video, showing more clearly that the person in question is Obrador and not Biden: David Mikkelson founded the site now known as snopes.com back in 1994. This material may not be reproduced without permission. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com The heavy rain first began to fall on 15 March 2015 the worst affected areas are the state capital In Morelia, the Rio Grande overflowed, forcing some residents in the districts of Jacarandas, Primo Tapia, Carlos Salazar and Tres Puentes to evacuate. Flooding has affected as many as 32 districts (colonias) in the city, according to local media Morelia suffered from severe flooding in 2013 30 families were evacuated and floods have destroyed as many as 20 houses in Apatzingán In Guerrero state, around 90 homes have been damaged by floods in Atoyac de Alvarez and San Jerónimo. Acapulco has also seen heavy rain and strong winds, although no major flooding has been reported in the city. Acapulco suffered from major floods in September 2013 when parts of the city were under 1 metre of water and thousands of tourists were stranded after the airport was flooded At least six people died in floods in the state in October 2014 when as many as 4,000 people were forced frm their homes An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 struck central Mexico on Friday seismologists the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported Seismologists said it triggering alarms in the capital where anxious residents poured into the streets According to the national seismology service the quake hit at a shallow depth of 19km beneath the epicenter near Ometepec in the evening on Friday 19 March 2021 at 9:06 pm local time Twitter confirms it might let you undo tweets feature UN says no international staff left in North Korea there were no immediate reports of injuries or significant damage The tremor triggered Mexico City's alarm system which uses seismic monitors to give residents advance warning of a quake But in the end it was barely felt in the capital where city authorities said there were no reports of damage located in Guerrero state closer to the epicenter "It caught us off guard and we panicked thinking we should leave urgently but I couldn't get out because one of my daughters was taking a bath," said Virginia Hernandez Mexico is frequently shaken by earthquakes A strong magnitude 4.6 earthquake occurred in the North Pacific Ocean near the coast of Estado de Guerrero State,  Mexico 2025 at 1.18 pm local time (America/Mexico City GMT -6) The depth of the quake could not be determined but is assumed to be shallow.The quake was reported felt by some people near the epicenter A strong magnitude 5.0 earthquake occurred in the North Pacific Ocean near the coast of  Mexico in the late afternoon of Friday The quake had a very shallow depth of 5.7 km (3.5 mi) and was reported felt by some people near the epicenter Two strong earthquakes struck Mexico Tuesday in a 7.4-magnitude earthquake that destroyed hundreds of homes and affected over 20 million people with widespread damage Geological Survey reported the first earthquake was 7.4 on the Richter scale and it struck 11 miles below the surface shortly after noon local time (18:02 GMT) with 10 aftershocks According to Interior Secretary Alejandro Poire no one died in the earthquake but nine were injured in Oaxaca and two in Mexico City when the quake struck from the epicenter southwest of Ometepec in Guerrero state According to ABC News about 800 homes were seriously damaged in Oaxaca and Guerrero Angel Aguirre order emergency responders to respond to the city of Ometepec Reuters reported that a bridge collapsed on a bus in Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard reported minimal damage in Mexico City noting phone lines were down and some were without power Ebrard set up a hotline for residents to report damages CBS News reported that First daughter Malia Obama who was on vacation in southwest Mexico with friends is safe and was never in danger of the earthquake Other residents were evacuated almost immediately when the quake struck shortly after noon on Tuesday I was sitting at my desk on the ninth floor when all of the sudden I got a sudden dizzy feeling as if the ground fell beneath me recounted to IBTimes from Colonia Lomas de Plateros Then I realized it wasn't the wind moving the window shades as the plants in the office were also moving .. and the picture frames on the wall were swinging from side to side along with many other workers and residents in Mexico City was evacuated outside of the building as everyone was instructed in Spanish to stay calm and go downstairs while many aftershocks were felt the Tuesday earthquake was much more intense than the 6.4-magnitude quake that struck Mexico City in December stronger than what I had felt in December when a 6.4 shook the city The earthquake was the strongest quake in Mexico since the 8.0-magnitude one that devastated the capital in 1985 and killed at least 10,000 people View the slideshow to see photos of the damage by the March 20 quake in Mexico