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| Earthquake hits southern Mexico | |
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| A strong earthquake has struck south of Mexico's capital, Mexico City, causing buildings to shake and prompting workers to rush out on to the streets. | |
| The quake had a magnitude of 6.0, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). | |
| The USGS said the quake had hit 240km (150 miles) south of the capital at a depth of 40km. | |
| Mexico is currently battling an outbreak of the swine flu virus, which has claimed as many as 149 lives there. | |
| There were no immediate reports of injuries or structural damage caused by the earthquake. | |
| It struck at about 1145 local time (1645 GMT) and was centred near the southern city of Chilpancingo. | |
| "I'm scared," Sarai Luna Pajas, a 22-year-old Mexico City resident, told the AP news agency. | |
| "We Mexicans are not used to living with so much fear, but all that is happening - the economic crisis, the illnesses and now this - it feels like the Apocalypse." |