Mexico City: A strong earthquake shook southern Mexico on Friday, rattling nerves and swaying tall buildings hundreds of miles away in Mexico City. No serious damage, injuries or deaths have been reported yet.
According to reports of The U.S. Geological Survey, the quake had a magnitude of 6.6. It was centred about 10 miles from the city of Tapachula in Chiapas state and struck at a depth of 40 miles.
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Chiapas civil defense official Arturo Barrientos told The Associated Press that there were no reports of serious damage and authorities were monitoring the situation. Barrientos said cracks appeared in a wall at an elementary school in the state capital, Tuxtla Gutierrez, but the children were evacuated safely.
Luis Manuel Garcia, Chiapas' civil defense secretary said that fortunately there is no loss of human lives nor injuries that require hospitalization.
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Eariler in 2017, also The same region was rocked in September by a magnitude 8.1 earthquake that killed nearly 100 people and damaged thousands of buildings. A more damaging 7.1 quake in central Mexico later that month left more than 400 dead, including at least 228 in the capital.