Powerful earthquake shakes Mexico City

A powerful earthquake shook Mexico City on Friday, triggering the capital’s quake alarm system and causing buildings to sway.

Mexico’s National Seismological Service put the magnitude of the quake at 7.0, and seismic monitor network Sky Alert said the quake was felt across the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Puebla.

The US Geological Survey gave the quake’s magnitude as 7.5, locating its epicenter just southeast of Pinotepa de Don Luis, in the southwestern state of Oaxaca.  /muf