Quake measuring 6.3 rocks Mexico

WASHINGTON: An earthquake measuring 6.3 struck southwestern Mexico Monday, in a region in which two people died in a quake last month, US experts said.

The earthquake struck at 1736 GMT some 158 kilometers (98 miles) from Huajuapan de Leon, Oaxaca, and 174 kilometers (108 miles) from Chilpancingo, in Guerrero, at a depth of 12.3 kilometers (7.6 miles), the US Geological Survey said, after reviewing its initial estimates.

On March 21, a quake measuring 7.4 on the moment magnitude scale struck Guerrero and the neighboring state of Oaxaca. Two people died and another 13 people were hurt.

The earthquake -- with its epicenter south of the Pacific resort of Acapulco -- was the most powerful to hit the country since one in 1985, which destroyed entire neighborhoods of the capital, Mexico City, and killed thousands.

More than 40 aftershocks, some measuring up to 5.0 magnitude, shook the Mexican capital and southern areas in the aftermath of the March earthquake, according to the National Seismological Service. (AFP)