Tsunami and early fatalities confirmed after powerful quake hits Mexico
The earthquake is stronger than the one that killed thousands in 1985, but so far seems to be much less damaging
Mexico City — A tsunami has been confirmed off the coast of Mexico, and at least two people have been reported dead, after an earthquake of magnitude 8.1 struck off the southern coast late on Thursday. The quake shook buildings as far away as Guatemala and sent people running into the streets in the capital. The two fatalities came in the southern state of Chiapas, Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said. The quake hit off the coast of Chiapas. The interior ministry said the quake had a magnitude of 8.4, while the US Geological Survey put it at a revised 8.1, up from 8.0 initially. Mexico’s civil protection agency said it was the strongest earthquake to hit the capital since a devastating 1985 tremor that flattened swathes of Mexico City and killed thousands. There were no immediate reports of major damage but windows were broken at the airport and power went out in several major neighbourhoods of the capital. The cornice of a hotel collapsed in the southern tourist city of...
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