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Powerful earthquake strikes Southern Mexico

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    Hundreds of homes left damaged by quake

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A strong earthquake rattling Mexico a magnitude seven point four quake hitting the state of -- -- arrow in the southwestern part of the country.

The US Geological Survey reports the epicenter about eleven miles on the ground.

There on the twentieth floor.

The windows fair shake and they're late -- and lots of -- very spooky.

Everything's there shaking it.

The window through shaking and I got a -- and I am very scary fear and panic.

Gripping residents and tourists when a magnitude five point one off to -- strikes the region.

Hundreds of homes reportedly damaged but despite that damage the vital infrastructure remains intact.

Look in the most of that we have no damages to roads bridges dams in hydroelectric plants nor electric power stations nor in the course -- The quake also felt in the country's capital Mexico City about 200 miles away from the epicenter.

This pedestrian bridge destroyed crashing a top Abbas and at least one building appears on the verge of collapse in that city.

We have managed magnitude seven point four earthquake right in this city -- would have been tremendous amount of damage.

But in this case the earthquake is in the ocean plate that's being -- beneath the continent.

And in those cases it's -- common to have extensive damage from an earthquake this -- -- Just say Mexico's Pacific coast is no stranger -- powerful earthquakes since 1973.

They US Geological Survey has counted.

Fifteen quakes with a magnitude seven analog yet.

In that region.

In -- Jonathan Hunt Fox News.

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