The ground moved. The ocean got nervous. And three countries held their breath.
At 8:18 pm IST on Friday, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake ripped through the seabed near Puerto Madero, on Mexico's southern coast in Chiapas.
Depth? Just 10 kilometres.
That's shallow. Dangerously shallow.
The shallower the quake, the harder the shake.
Within minutes, the US Tsunami Warning System issued a tsunami threat alert for the region.
Shallow, offshore, major magnitude — that's the exact recipe that makes seismologists reach for the red phone.
This wasn't a local tremor.
A Reuters witness reported buildings shaking in Guatemala City — a city that isn't even in the same country as the epicentre.
Residents in El Salvador felt it too.
Three nations. One fault line. One very bad Friday evening.
No deaths reported.
No major structural damage confirmed.
Authorities are still running assessments — but the early silence on casualties is the best kind of silence.
Here's the thing about "Major" earthquakes though.
They don't always announce their full damage on day one.
Aftershocks come. Tsunami waves, if they form, can take hours to reach shore.
⚡ Coastal communities from Chiapas to El Salvador are being watched — closely, and in real time.
Nature just reminded an entire region who's really in charge.
That's all for now!
