Mexico (AP) — A magnitude-6.9 earthquake on the Pacific Coast jolted a wide area of southern Mexico and Central America Monday, killing at least three people and damaging dozens of homes.
The U.S. Geological Survey said
the quake hit at 6:23 a.m. (7:23 a.m. EDT; 11:23 GMT) on the Pacific
Coast 1 mile (2 kilometers) north-northeast of Puerto Madero, near the
Guatemala border. It initially calculated the magnitude at 7.1 but later
lowered the figure to 6.9.
