MEXICO CITY: A strong earthquake shook southern and central Mexico Friday, causing panic less than six months after two devastating quakes that killed hundreds of people. Both Mexico’s National Seismological Service and the US Geological Survey put the magnitude of the quake at 7.2. We start crying whenever the (earthquake) alarm goes off,” 38-year-old publicist Kevin Valladolid told Agence France-Presse through tears after evacuating from his building in La Roma, in central Mexico City. The latest tremor comes less than six months after last year’s devastating earthquakes in central and southern Mexico. Then on September 19 — the 32nd anniversary of a huge 1985 quake that killed 10,000 people — a 7.1-magnitude quake rocked the country, leaving 369 people dead.

Source: Manila Times February 17, 2018 03:45 UTC