“A powerful earthquake struck central and southern Mexico on Friday, killing at least two people,” notes a news report.
“The magnitude 6.5 quake struck near the tourist hotspot of Acapulco, in Guerrero state on the Pacific coast.”
The tremor shook buildings 250 miles away in the capital, Mexico City, where President Claudia Sheinbaum interrupted a press conference to evacuate the presidential palace.
The earthquake’s epicenter was 9 miles southeast of San Marcos, a town in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero.
Guerrero Governor Evelyn Salgado noted that a woman was killed in San Marcos “when her house collapsed on top of her.”
At least 50 homes in San Marcos were destroyed, with Mayor Misael Lorenzo Castillo noting that “all the houses” in the town now “have cracks.”
In Mexico City, a man in his 60s fell to his death while trying to flee his second-floor apartment. At least 30 other people were injured in Mexico City.
Mexican seismologists recorded 425 aftershocks by the middle of the day, one of them a magnitude 4.7, making it a real earthquake in its own right.
In January, at least 120 people died in an earthquake in Tibet.
Dozens of people were killed in an earthquake in Northern Afghanistan in November.
On August 31, an earthquake in eastern Afghanistan killed over 1,000 people.
