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One person has died after falling on a utility pole during a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in the center and southeast this Tuesday. Mexico, Announced a regional governor.

“One died after a pole fell on the municipality of Coyoga de Benades”, Guerrero (Southeast), the governor of that delimitation, Hector Astudillo, informed Millenio TV.

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With regard to material damage, Mexico’s president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said in a statement that “only stones falling from fences have been reported.”The same goes for Morelos (center), no damage in Oaxaca (south), no damage in Puebla (center) ”, as well as in Mexico City.

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The epicenter was reported below the Pacific Ocean floor, at 11:47 GMT, according to the US Geological Survey. There have been 3 earthquakes so far.

“No serious damage has been reported so far,” Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum wrote on Twitter.

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“Power will be cut off, but without proper news, Metro and Metrobes will continue to work”Omar Garcia Milanio, head of the Secretary-General for Civil Defense, told television.

Nerve fracture

Mayor Agapulco, Adela Roman, announced it “There are nerve fractures and people are worried because there are earthquakes.”

He added that “multiple gas leaks” have been detected in residential areas.

An AFP reporter found utility poles falling on Costera Avenue, crushing vehicles and the facade of a church collapsing.

Outside a hotel, a tourist tried to recover from the shock when he hugged his 86-year-old mother who was crying.

“I was taking a bath. Suddenly I felt a very strong movement, then I screamed in fear”, Sixstow, a Mexican man who was on vacation in Acapulco, told AFP he only left with a bath towel.

“I’m coming with my mom, we’re on the 11th floor of the hotel (…) I think the hotel is very damaged”, Added.

The quake was felt in parts of Mexico and the state of Veracruz (eastern).

The epicenter was reported below the Pacific Ocean floor, however; no tsunami alert was issued.

“I’m so scared. I don’t know if I’m going to sleep tonight. I’m worried about my daughter. I woke her up to put her down. I didn’t even put on my shoes.”Lora Villa, 49, of Downtown Mexico City, told AFP.

Television footage showed tourists staying in hotels on Reforma Avenue, one of the capital’s main thoroughfares, evacuating their rooms in fear.

An earthquake in Mexico City in September 1985 killed at least 10,000 people.

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