ACAPULCO, Mexico — A moderately strong earthquake struck near Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Acapulco on Wednesday, causing cracks in some buildings and knocking bricks and plaster off other structures.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake at 7:38 a.m. had a magnitude of 6.2. It was centred near the Pacific coast and about 100 kilometres east of Acapulco.
No significant injuries were reported, but a chunk of ornamental plaster work fell off the facade of one hotel on Acapulco’s once-glamorous main boulevard. Cracks were found in the walls of a university in Acapulco and a concrete entrance gate at a local military base collapsed, said Victor Torres Ruiz, the spokesman for the state government of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located.
An apartment block also suffered structural damage, according to Constantino Gonzalez Vargas, head of the state civil defence office.
Ezequiel Baltazar was driving his daughter to school in Acapulco along with his wife when the quake struck and a large chunk of rock fell from the hillside onto the trunk of his car.
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