Environment
Quakes, Big and Small, Rattle Mexico City Amid September Jitters
Mexico City has several faults that criss-cross the valley area where it sits.
Photographer: Cesar Rodriguez/BloombergA series of quakes rattled Mexico City on Thursday, causing alarm among citizens used to tremors, sometimes with devastating effects. No damages were reported.
The quakes varied from those of medium magnitude, enough to trigger seismic alerts used to prompt evacuations, to very short ones. Mexicans tend to be especially alert in September, given that two earthquakes in that month in 1985 and 2017 were strong enough to topple buildings and kill thousands.