MEXICO CITY (Reuters) A potent 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook Mexico with Saturday, trashing released lights inside areas of the main city in addition to sending people hurrying on the streets.
Reuters reporters around Mexico City explained this earthquake seemed to carry on with regard to an unusually prolonged period. There ended up zero immediate reviews connected with damage however citizens played beyond condo buildings and stores.
"I seemed to be dreadfully afraid, I notion it absolutely was for no reason about to end," mentioned Laura Gonzalez, whom has been having from a bar inside the capital should the quake struck.
Its epicenter is at the actual southwestern point out connected with Guerrero and appeared to be 40 kilometer after kilometer deep, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Power had been knocked out within elements of the funding although Mexico City mayor Marcelo Ebrard claimed water services, the actual subway and the airport terminal were being employed normally.
A severe earthquake in 1985 killed a large number of individuals and wrecked aspects of Mexico City .
(Reporting by way of Luis Rojas and also Mica Rosenberg; publishing by way of Krista Hughes; Editing by Kieran Murray)
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