AFP :
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck near Mexico’s Pacific resort city of Acapulco left at least one person dead and damaged hospitals, homes, shops and hotels, authorities said Wednesday.
More than 200 aftershocks were recorded after the powerful tremor, whose epicenter was 11 kilometers (seven miles) southeast of Acapulco in Guerrero state, the National Seismological Service reported.
The earthquake, which hit on Tuesday evening, shook buildings in the
capital Mexico City several hundred kilometers away.
One person was killed by a falling pole in the city of Coyuca de Benitez in Guerrero, authorities said.
The government offices in Guerrero suffered structural damage and broken windows, along with other public and private buildings, the state’s governor, Hector Astudillo, said.
Only minor damage was reported in other parts of the country, including in the earthquake-prone capital, which is built on a former lake bed.
“We know that there was no serious damage in Puebla, in Oaxaca, in Morelos, here in Mexico City,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said at his daily news conference.
