Strong Tremors Rock Mexico City
A strong tremor shook Mexico City at about 9:13 p.m. local time Friday, followed by a stronger aftershock a few minutes later.
The quakes, estimated at magnitude 5, lasted about one minute each and shook buildings and knocked pictures off walls. Some traffic lights went out. But there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
Bruce Presgrave, spokesman for the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., said preliminary readings indicated that the two quakes originated on Mexico’s Pacific coast in Guerrero state.
The quakes were felt in the resort city of Acapulco, which is in Guerrero, and in the southern state of Oaxaca.
Mexico City was devastated in 1985 by a quake that measured 8.1 and killed about 10,000 people.
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