Presiding over the National Emergency Committee—the Mexican government’s primary coordination mechanism in this area—in the capital, Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection Omar García emphasized that saving lives remains the ultimate goal.

  He highlighted progress made in modernizing public alert systems; thanks to collaborative work with the Agency for Digital Transformation and Telecommunications, alarms were activated on millions of mobile phones.

  He described this tool as a significant breakthrough in bringing civil protection to all regions of Mexico and ensuring that timely information reaches even the most remote communities.

  The hypothetical scenarios involved a magnitude 7.7 earthquake for the central zone; 7.1 for the northwest; 5.2 for the northeast; 7.0 for the Yucatán Peninsula; and 7.6 for the Gulf of Tehuantepec.

  According to authorities, the simulated exercise combined observed seismic activity, historical precedents, and territorial coverage to test regional coordination.

  Earlier, President Claudia Sheinbaum led a flag-raising ceremony in Mexico City’s Zócalo to honor the victims of the 1985 earthquakes—which claimed at least 10,000 lives—and the 2017 earthquakes, which resulted in hundreds of deaths. jdt/car/las