Mexico City-SANA
A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Mexico today, the National Seismological Observatory announced, while the Tsunami Early Warning Center warned of the formation of tsunami waves from the quake.
The observatory said, according to Firas Press, that the epicenter of the earthquake was located 14 kilometers southeast of the coastal resort of Acapulco in the state of Guerrero, and 400 kilometers south of the capital, Mexico.
For its part, the Pacific Tsunami Early Warning Center, based in Honolulu, the capital of the US state of Hawaii, issued a warning of the danger of high tidal waves within a radius of 300 km from the epicenter along the coast of Mexico.
The earthquake, which lasted less than a minute, caused buildings to shake throughout the capital.
There was no immediate information on casualties or material losses as a result of the earthquake.
The last major earthquake in Mexico, with a magnitude of 7.1, was on September 19, 2017, when 369 people were killed.
