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Earthquake shakes Mexico's Gulf of California

2 hours, 13 minutes ago

CULIACAN, Mexico (Reuters) - A strong earthquake hit Mexico's Gulf of
California on Saturday, but there were no reports of damage and no danger
of a tsunami.

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The epicenter of the 6.3-magnitude earthquake
was 61 miles from the town of Los Mochis in the
tomato-growing state of Sinaloa, at a depth of
35 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey
reported.

Civil protection authorities in Los Mochis said they had not received any
reports of damage or injuries.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii
said there was no danger of dangerous waves from the earthquake.

"Fortunately, most of the earthquakes in the Gulf of
California are the kind that don't lift the ocean bottom and so they
don't generate waves," Tsunami Center geophysicist Gerard Fryer said.

The Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez, separates the
sparsely populated Baja California peninsula
from mainland Mexico.

Last April, a strong magnitude 6 earthquake shook Mexico, sending thousands
of tourists in the resort of Acapulco fleeing
into the streets in panic and knocking out electricity 250 miles away in Mexico City.

(Additional reporting by Noel Randewich)

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