{"id":554736,"date":"2026-07-17T17:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/554736\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T17:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:26:10","slug":"tsunami-warning-triggered-after-7-4-magnitude-earthquake-hits-off-mexico-coast-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/554736\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami warning triggered after 7.4 magnitude earthquake hits off Mexico coast \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck near \u200bthe coast of Mexico<\/a>\u2019s southernmost state of Chiapas on Friday, triggering a tsunami warning and shaking buildings in neighbouring Guatemala and El Salvador.<\/p>\n

Authorities reported no immediate damage<\/p>\n

The quake struck at a depth of 15.2km, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, after revising its earlier assessment of a 7.4 magnitude \u200bquake at a shallow, 10km depth.<\/p>\n

Following the tremor, the US Tsunami Warning System said that hazardous tsunami waves were possible along coasts located within \u2060300km of the epicentre. The waves could reach levels between 0.3m and 1m above \u200ctide \u200clevel \u200bfor some coasts in Mexico and Guatemala, it said.<\/p>\n

Mexico\u2019s secretary of the navy, Raymundo Morales, said water levels were not expected to rise more than half a meter, but nevertheless advised \u2060people to stay away from beaches for \u200bnow.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no problem, no serious maritime impact,\u201d Morales said during \u200ba regular government press conference. \u201cWe only expect some beaches to see a rise in water level of up to half \u200ca meter due to the tsunami effect from the \u200bearthquake.\u201d<\/p>\n

A series of aftershocks, including some with magnitudes between 5 and 6, were also felt in Mexico, Guatemala \u2060and El Salvador.<\/p>\n

In Guatemala City, \u2060the earthquake shook buildings \u200band prompted some residents to dash from their homes on to the street, according to a Reuters witness. Local media in Guatemala showed footage of staff evacuating a government building as security protocols were activated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got really scared and it reminded me of the recent earthquake in Venezuela<\/a>. So I ran out and went down the stairs because I live on the eighth floor. The shaking wouldn\u2019t stop,\u201d Alexander Valdez, a 29-year-old accountant in Guatemala City, said.<\/p>\n

Adolfo Zacarias, a 43-year-old customer service worker who lives on the third floor of his building, said \u200che sought shelter under a structural \u2060column as the shaking began.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the memories of what recently happened in Venezuela came back to us and that scared us a lot,\u201d Zacarias said.<\/p>\n

Venezuela is still reeling from twin earthquakes that \u200cstruck the country on June 24th, when magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 tremors hit within less than a minute of each other in the north-central region, toppling \u200bbuildings in Caracas and nearby coastal areas and triggering a prolonged rescue and relief \u200beffort. <\/p>\n

The death toll \u200chas \u200brisen to \u20604,930, according to \u200cfigures released \u200cby \u200btop politician \u2060Jorge \u200bRodriguez on \u200bThursday. \u2013 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck near \u200bthe coast of Mexico\u2019s southernmost state of Chiapas on Friday, triggering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,2628,43,40,38,41,39,92549],"class_list":["post-554736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-mexico","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}