A 6.5-magnitude earthquake shakes southern and central Mexico and kills 2 | news

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A powerful earthquake shook southern and central Mexico on Friday, interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum's first news conference of the new year as quake alerts sounded and killing at least two people.

The Mexican National Seismological Agency said that the earthquake had a magnitude of 6.5 and its epicenter was near the town of San Marcos in the southern state of Guerrero, near the resort of Acapulco on the Pacific coast. There were more than 500 aftershocks.

The state Civil Defense Agency reported several landslides around Acapulco and on other highways in the state.

Guerrero state governor Evelyn Salgado said a 50-year-old woman living in a small community near the epicenter died when her house collapsed. Authorities also said a hospital in Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero state, suffered major structural damage and several patients were evacuated.

Residents and tourists in Mexico City and Acapulco rushed into the streets when the shaking began. Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada said that one person died after suffering a medical emergency followed by a fall while evacuating the building.

The USGS said the quake occurred at a depth of 21.7 miles (35 kilometers), 2.5 miles north-northwest of Rancho Viejo, Guerrero, which is located in the mountains about 57 miles northeast of Acapulco.

Sheinbaum resumed her press conference shortly after the earthquake.

Jose Raymundo Díaz Taboada, a doctor and human rights defender who lives on one of the peaks surrounding Acapulco, said he heard a loud noise and all the neighborhood dogs started barking.

“At that moment, the seismic alarm went off on my mobile phone, and then I started to feel strong shaking with a lot of noise,” he said.

He added that the tremors were milder than in some previous earthquakes, and that he had prepared a backpack containing essentials in preparation for leaving as aftershocks continued.

He said he was unable to reach some friends who live along the Costa Chica southeast of Acapulco because of communications blackouts.

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