Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

400 people evacuated due to earthquake in Puerto Vallarta

At 10:04 am, the Seismic Monitoring System of the Jalisco Civil Protection and Firefighters State Unit detected an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.5 with an epicenter in Puerto Vallarta, which had a slight perception in some areas of the municipality.

The officers of the State Unit carried out various monitoring tours without identifying, so far, any damage.

However, in a preventive manner, the evacuation of 400 people was carried out at the Municipal Administrative Unit (UMA) in Vallarta.

Based on information from the National Seismological Institute, at 10:38 a . . .

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