MEXICO CITY - A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.
4 struck southern Mexico's Pacific coast on Tuesday, killing at least 5 people and cutting off isolated villages, as well as causing damage to buildings hundreds of miles away in Mexico City.
A Oaxaca state official said rescue workers were trying to get to the settlement of Santa Catarina Xanaguia, near the epicenter, where the quake brought down homes or parts of the mountainside, trapping people. People had sent messages for help by phone, the official added. Miguel Candelaria, 30, was working at his computer in his family home in the Oaxaca town of Juchitan when the ground began to tremble. He ran outside with relatives, but they had to stop in the middle of the street as the pavement buckled and rocked.Quakes of magnitudes over 7 are major earthquakes capable of widespread, heavy damage.In Mexico City, buildings shook strongly and people ran into the streets when an early warning seismic alarm sounded.
The ocean receded on Oaxaca's Pacific coast and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned of a possible tsunami as far away as South America but later said the danger had passed.
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