(KMJ/CBS) – A major earthquake off Mexico’s southern coast has reportedly killed dozens people. And the president of that nation is calling it the biggest quake in a century to hit the country.
Houses toppled and the quake produced tsunami waves and sent people running into the streets in panic.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported the earthquake’s magnitude as 8.1, but President Enrique Pena Nieto said it was 8.2, making it the largest in Mexico in 100 years.
He also said it was bigger than the one in 1985, when thousands were killed in four Mexican states.
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