{"id":496448,"date":"2026-01-02T13:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/strong-earthquake-while-sheinbaum-speaks-at-a-conference-in-mexico\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:31:12","slug":"strong-earthquake-while-sheinbaum-speaks-at-a-conference-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/strong-earthquake-while-sheinbaum-speaks-at-a-conference-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong earthquake while Sheinbaum speaks at a conference in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, had to abruptly interrupt her usual press conference this Friday after a seismic alert began to sound due to the&nbsp;<strong>6.5-magnitude earthquake<\/strong>&nbsp;that occurred in this capital.\n\n<strong>&#8220;Oh, it&#8217;s shaking, let&#8217;s see, calmly&#8221;<\/strong>, the president managed to say before journalists, officials, and staff from the Presidency began to evacuate the hall of the National Palace where the conference is held daily.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/un-sismo-de-magnitud-66-sacudio-las-costas-de-taiwan\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"586352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A magnitude 6.6 earthquake shook the coasts of Taiwan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<strong>At that moment, the broadcast was interrupted<\/strong>. Only 34 minutes had passed of a meeting that usually lasts two hours on average.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a1\ufe0f Claudia Sheinbaum tuvo que interrumpir este viernes de manera intempestiva su habitual rueda de prensa luego de que comenzara a sonar una alerta s\u00edsmica que anticip\u00f3 el temblor <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NKWdURX3m6\">pic.twitter.com\/NKWdURX3m6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; RT en Espa\u00f1ol (@ActualidadRT) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ActualidadRT\/status\/2007100283046994035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nThe Milenio newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milenio.com\/estados\/temblor-hoy-mexico-sismo-magnitud-2-enero-2026-en-vivo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> multiple earthquakes in the country, not only in Mexico City, since the National Seismological Service registered telluric movements in the states of <strong>Oaxaca, Baja California, Sonora and Guerrero<\/strong>, with a magnitude range of 4.1 to 6.5.\n\nAfter a few minutes, the president resumed the conference and explained that the earthquake recorded in Mexico City had an epicenter located 15 kilometers southwest of San Marcos, in Guerrero.\n\n&#8220;I spoke with the governor of Guerrero, Evelyn Salgado, they are summoning the Civil Protection Council, <strong>so far it seems there is no serious damage<\/strong> but we are going to wait for the report from Guerrero and, in the case of Mexico City, in the first flyover that the helicopters made as a protocol, it is reported that there is also no damage, but we are going to be on the lookout,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JorgeArmandoR_\/status\/2007093368715895043\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">it was indicated<\/a>.\n\nHe also celebrated the serene reaction of the conference participants. <strong>&#8220;Thank you all, thank you for keeping calm, you were all first-rate,&#8221;<\/strong> he said.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, had to abruptly interrupt her usual press conference this Friday after a seismic alert began to sound due to the&nbsp;6.5-magnitude earthquake&nbsp;that occurred in this capital. &#8220;Oh, it&#8217;s shaking, let&#8217;s see, calmly&#8221;, the president managed to say before journalists, officials, and staff from the Presidency began to evacuate the hall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":496450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[40391],"class_list":["post-496448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-earthquake"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-259e","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/6957d2f759bf5b3d7b223004.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/6957d2f759bf5b3d7b223004.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}