On Friday afternoon, the National Seismological Service (SSN) reported that 542 aftershocks from the magnitude 6.5 earthquake that occurred in San Marcos, Guerrero, were registered, with the largest being magnitude 4.7. The latest information released by the SSN adheres to the latest cut-off at 2:00 AM this January 2, 2026. The initial earthquake was reported by the institution at 07:58 at 4 kilometers southwest of the town of San Marcos, Guerrero, and activated the seismic alert in several states of the country. According to municipal, state, and National Civil Protection Coordination (CNPC) reports, the earthquake was felt in the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Morelos, Puebla, Jalisco, Tabasco, Colima, and Hidalgo, though with minor damage. According to the director of Civil Protection for San Marcos, Diego Armando Valente, 300 of the affected houses are made of adobe and 200 of other materials, while approximately 70 adobe houses partially collapsed. The CNPC pointed out that the earthquake was strongly felt in Guerrero, where immediately after the event, attention and evaluation protocols were activated in the 85 municipalities of the entity. The earthquake occurred just as President Claudia Sheinbaum was holding her morning press conference, so she had to leave, preventively, the facilities of the National Palace along with reporters and government workers. You might be interested > Guerrero | Six communities affected and 500 houses damaged by earthquake in San Marcos. The head of Government of Mexico City, Clara Brugada, reported that after activating the earthquake action protocol, the report at the moment is “12 injured people; the fall of 5 poles and 4 trees; as well as 18 complaints for lack of electricity supply in different neighborhoods”. She also said that two structures are being evaluated for collapse risk, and 34 buildings and five houses are being inspected preventively. Meanwhile, the Benito Juárez mayor's office, in the south of the Mexican capital, reported the death of a 60-year-old man, who died while evacuating the building where he lived. Later, the governor of Guerrero, Evelyn Salgado, reported that a woman who lived in the community of Las Minas, in San Marcos, died because her house collapsed due to the tremor. You might be interested > Governor ‘denies’ video of damage at Acapulco Airport, but AFAC and SICT confirm damage from earthquake. The earthquake registered this Friday recalls the one on September 19, 1985, when the most destructive earthquake in the country's history occurred, magnitude 8.1, with its epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, on the coast of the state of Michoacán, and effects in the center, south, and west of the country, with an official figure of 3,192 dead, although organizations calculate that there were actually more than 20 thousand due to irregularities in the count. While on September 19, 2017, an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 with its epicenter in the states of Puebla and Morelos, in the center of the country, left 370 dead and more than 7 thousand injured, with the majority of the deaths in Mexico City, which concentrated 228.
