No injuries as Mexico resort hit by quake of 6.2 magnitude
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A MODERATELY strong earthquake struck near Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Acapulco yesterday, causing cracks in some buildings and knocking bricks and plaster off other structures.
The US Geological Survey said the quake at 7:38am local time had a magnitude of 6.2. It was centered near the Pacific coast and about 100 kilometers east of Acapulco.
A chunk of ornamental plaster work fell off the facade of one hotel on Acapulco’s once-glamorous main boulevard, and tourists swarmed out of another nearby hotel, gathering on the sidewalk outside until the tremor had passed.
A large rock tumbled off a hillside onto a car, and structural damage was reported at an apartment block, said Constantino Gonzalez Vargas, head of the state civil defense office.
But there were no reports of injuries.
Cracks were found in the walls of a university in Acapulco and a cement entrance gate at a military base fell, said Victor Torres Ruiz, spokesman for the state government of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located.
A second, smaller quake followed 24 minutes later. The USGS said the magnitude of the aftershock at 5.3.
Traffic lights went out in the city, causing traffic jams, and fears of more possible aftershocks led some schools in Acapulco to send children home for the day.
Buildings swayed in Mexico City, 280 kilometers to the north, and some people evacuated office buildings as an earthquake alarm sounded. On the city’s main boulevard, one man injured his leg as he rushed out of an office building.
Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said there were no reports of damages or serious injuries.
Mexico City is vulnerable even to distant earthquakes because much of it sits atop the muddy sediments of drained lake beds that quiver as quake waves hit.
The magnitude-8.1 quake in 1985 that killed at least 6,000 people and destroyed many buildings in Mexico City was centered 400 kilometers away on the Pacific coast.
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