An earthquake of magnitude magnitude-7.1 on Richard scale and occurred 57 miles below the earth surface has rocked southern Mexico and Central America on Monday, which has caused serious damage of property and life’s.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the temblor,
which hit at about 7:23 a.m. ET, was centered about a mile northeast of the
town of Puerto Madero, Mexico, near the Guatemala border.
"We have reports of damaged
homes and apparently three people dead. For now, this is all supposition, we're
going by air to make checks," Sergio Cabanas, a spokesman for Guatemalan
emergency services, told Reuters.
Fifteen people were taken to
hospitals and around 70 houses were evacuated in the region.
Guatemalan President Otto Perez
Molina said that one officially confirmed death in Guatemala as of early
afternoon was a newborn hit by a piece of false ceiling in a San Marcos
hospital.
Cracks opened up in buildings, and
there were landslides in the areas also.
The quake was felt strongly in the
Mexican states of Chiapas and Tabasco. The civil defense office in the Mexican
state of Chiapas reported that two people died there, including one man who had
been killed in Huixtla by a collapsed wall.
Early history of quakes in the region were in 2012 in which
around 50 people were killed by a quake of 7.4 magnitude on Richard scale.
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