It was during the wee hours of the morning today... at 12:42 A.M. to be exact. I was alone at the apartment; Alejandro was at the family house. A blaring alarm went off on my cell phone, and seconds later the outdoor sirens started... "Alerta sísmica, alerta sísmica" (seismic alert). Another earthquake.
I don't worry too much about being in the apartment during an earthquake. The building is build on bedrock, and it went through the severe 2017 quake, a quake that toppled 40 buildings, without any damage. The alert gives you about a minute's warning. Since I would have to go done three flights of steps to leave the building, I just stay indoors. Alejandro judged that the safest place in the apartment would be in the far corner of the living room, an area that is not over the ground-floor parking garage. So I got out of bed and went to my corner. I waited several minutes, and I felt nothing. I went to the window, and although the lights were on in a few apartments, there was nobody on the street. I called Alejandro, and he said that he felt a very slight tremor.
The quake had a magnitude of 5.0 on the Richter scale, and the epicenter was in the same area of the state of Guerrero that had been hit by a stronger quake two weeks ago. It was thought to be an aftershock of that earlier quake.
There have been no reports of damage.
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