6.7 Earthquake Off Mexico’s Southern Coast Jars Wide Area
A large earthquake centered off the southern coast shook a broad portion of Mexico on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
Mexico’s National Seismological Service said the 12:27 p.m. quake registered at magnitude 6.7. The U.S. National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., recorded the temblor at 6.2.
The Mexican center said the quake was centered about 100 miles south of Juchitan, on the Pacific coast of the Tehuantepec Peninsula.
It said the quake was felt as far away as Veracruz, 300 miles away on the Gulf of Mexico coast.
The earthquake that killed at least 10,000 people Thursday in India was measured at 6.4.
But the impact of the Mexican quake apparently was less in part because its epicenter was well offshore.
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