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| Earthquake hits southern Mexico | 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. | 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 5.6, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). | |
| The USGS said the quake had hit 240km (150 miles) south of the capital. There were no reports of injuries. | |
| Mexico is currently battling an outbreak of the swine flu virus, which has claimed as many as 149 lives there. | Mexico is currently battling an outbreak of the swine flu virus, which has claimed as many as 149 lives there. |
| The tremeor 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 Associated Press 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." | "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." |
| The USGS initially measured the earthquake's magnitude at 6.0 but later revised the figure down to 5.6. |