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Strong earthquake rocks Guatemala, El Salvador

Front page / World

06/14/2007
10:01

Source: AP ©

A powerful earthquake that shook Guatemala
and parts of El Salvador caused traffic chaos in Guatemala
City, damaged some houses and generated landslides outside the
capital.

Strong earthquake rocks Guatemala, El
Salvador (Baido)

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But officials said there were no immediate
reports of major damage or injuries from the 6.8-magnitude
quake that struck Wednesday afternoon southwest of Guatemala
City.

Aid workers across Guatemala reported only
minor damage to homes in a couple of rural communities,
according to Francois de la Roche, Latin
America's director for humanitarian and emergency affairs
for the aid organization World Vision.

"I didn't notice it at first but then felt
this long, swaying motion back and forward," de la Roche said
in a telephone interview from Antigua, Guatemala.

The quake struck at 1:29 p.m. local time
(1929 GMT) and was centered 70 miles (115 kilometers)
southwest of Guatemala City off the Pacific coast, according
to the U.S. Geological Survey. Guatemala's seismology
institute said the quake lasted 49 seconds.

In Guatemala City, people fled buildings into
the streets, throwing traffic into chaos in the sprawling
city.

"It rattled a lot of nerves," said Benedicto
Giron, spokesman for the National Disaster Reduction Center.

Outside the capital, landslides were reported
in the southwest province of Escuintla, but they apparently
caused no casualties, Giron said. He added, however, that
phone service was knocked out in some areas and information
was only trickling in slowly.

The quake was also felt strongly in
neighboring El Salvador, where people ran into the streets in
the capital of San Salvador, but the Red Cross there said it
had no reports of damage or injuries.

It was also felt in the Mexican city of
Tapachula along the Guatemalan border.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center based in
Hawaii said no tsunami
was expected from the quake.

The region is prone to earthquakes.
Almost 23,000 people died in a 1976 earthquake in
Guatemala.

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