There were no immediate reports of significant damage from the earthquake that struck at 1:05 p.m. local time and struck the town of La Placita de Morelos in Michoacán state at a depth of 15 kilometers. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported on Twitter that his navy secretary said one person was killed in the port city of Manzanillo, Colima when a wall collapsed at a shopping mall. Michoacán authorities said there were no immediate reports of significant damage in that state beyond some cracks in buildings in the city of Coalcomán. A mandatory evacuation order was issued for Mexico City, but Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said so far there have been no reports of damage in the capital. Mexico’s national civil defense agency said the navy’s tsunami center had not issued a warning because, due to the center’s location, no fluctuations in sea levels were expected. Earlier, however, the US Tsunami Warning System said there was a tsunami risk near the coast of Michoacán. It came exactly five years after the earthquake that killed 370 people and caused widespread damage across the center and south of the country. A previous earthquake on the same day in 1985 killed about 5,000 people. Members of rescue teams attend a commemoration event in Mexico City for the 1985 and 2017 earthquakes, both on September 19. Photo: Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/Rex/Shutterstock “It’s that date, there’s something about the 19th,” said Ernesto Lanzetta, a business owner in the capital’s Cuauhtémoc district. “The 19th is a day to fear.” The new quake alerts came less than an hour after a nationwide earthquake simulation that marked the 1985 and 2017 quakes. Power was cut in parts of the capital’s central Roma quarter, hundreds of kilometers (miles) northeast of the epicenter. Local residents carrying pets stood in the street, while tourists visiting a local market with a local guide were visibly confused and upset. Traffic lights stopped working and people clutched their phones, sending text messages or waiting for calls to go through. Humberto Garza stood outside a restaurant in Roma holding his three-year-old son. Like many milling outside after the earthquake, Garza said the earthquake alarm sounded so soon after the annual simulation that he wasn’t sure it was real. “I heard the alarm, but it sounded very far away,” he said.