World Courant
TAPACHULA, Mexico — A robust earthquake shook the Mexico-Guatemala border early Sunday, driving frightened residents into the streets.
The quake struck simply earlier than 6 a.m. close to the Mexican border city of Suchiate, the place a river of the identical title separates the 2 nations. The epicenter was simply off the Pacific coast, 16 kilometers west-southwest of Brisas Barra de Suchiate, the place the river flows into the ocean.
The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 and a depth of 75 kilometers, in keeping with the US Geological Survey.
In Mexico, there have been no speedy experiences of injury, however extra mountainous, distant elements of the border are liable to landslides.
Throughout the border, Guatemala’s nationwide catastrophe prevention company shared pictures of small landslides on highways within the Quetzaltenango area and enormous cracks in partitions at a hospital in San Marcos on its social media accounts, however there have been no experiences of deaths.
In Tapachula, close to the border, civil protection brigades swept by the town on the lookout for indicators of injury.
Didier Solares, an official with Suchiate’s civil protection, stated they haven’t discovered any harm up to now.
“Thankfully, the whole lot is sweet,” stated Solares. “We’re speaking on the radio to companies and to the agricultural areas and there is nothing, there is no harm, thank God,” he stated.
The early morning earthquake nonetheless startled individuals.
Within the mountainous and picturesque colonial city of San Cristobal, the shaking was violent.
“Right here we stood up as a result of we now have the seismic warning service,” stated resident Joaquin Morales. “The alarm woke me up as a result of it comes 30 seconds earlier than (the earthquake).”
In Tuxtla Chico, a city close to Tapachula, María Guzmán, a instructor, stated: “It was horrible, it felt robust. It was actually scary.”
Afterward Sunday, a swarm of not less than 20 small earthquakes struck the northern Mexican state of Baja California, close to the US border. The biggest of the earthquakes had a magnitude of 4.6, whereas the bulk had been between 2.5 and three.7.
No speedy harm was reported within the sparsely populated space, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of a comparatively unpopulated space south of El Centro, California.
They seemed to be unrelated to the earthquake in Suchiate, practically 2,300 miles (3,750 kilometers) to the southeast.
