Well, how did you like that one? Guadalajara shook to the roots, buildings swayed, and people ran to the streets. This was a biggy. I´ve been through many in California, but only 3 really big ones including the one in Colima and this one ranks up there with the biggest. Awaiting damage reports. Fear factor is even worse for some. What did you experience?
Here on the coast in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, (apparently 143 km from the epicenter), our apartment on the top floor of the 4 floor building had a fairly strong side-to-side shake that lasted for maybe 10 seconds. No damage in this area that I've heard of.
The day before, we had a huge fog roll into Zihua Bay at around 11 am that actually frightened a lot of locals, who said they've never seen anything like it. Even though we're on the ocean, on-shore fog is uncommon here. This one was apparently caused by cool air from the much colder-than-usual sea temperatures meeting the heat of the land. Watching the fog roll-in, we went from a clear, cloudless blue sky to visibility of perhaps 50 feet, and the temperature dropped maybe 5C. The fog condensed on the palm fronds above our beach umbrella, and we were treated to the sounds of a summer shower under our umbrella for 5 or 10 minutes. This fog was so uncommon and unusual that some locals thought it was the precursor to a tsunami rolling into the Bay.
The weather here has been unusual since we arrived. October and November were warmer than usual, due to high humidity. December, January and February stayed hot. Since 1 March, it's been cooler days, some very cool (for Zihua) nights, and lower humidity, at a time of year when it should be getting much hotter. One night a week ago it dropped to 14C/57F - the coldest on record for this time of year.