Quake Jolts Central, Western Regions
From Times Wire Reports
A strong earthquake centered under the Pacific Ocean shook western and central Mexico, cracking walls, breaking windows and sending people racing into the streets. Mexico’s National Seismological Service said it was a magnitude 7 quake, but the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., measured it at 6.4. The quake was centered about 240 miles southwest of Mexico City, in the Pacific about 30 miles west of the coastal city of Lazaro Cardenas.
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