An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck southwestern Guatemala early on Wednesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said, uprooting trees and causing landslides.
The quake was at a depth of 96 km , with the epicentre 16 km east of Tiquisate, Guatemala, EMSC said.
Tiquisate is in a mostly poor region on the Central American nation's coastal planes, and is surrounded by large banana and palm oil plantations that export to the United States.the earthquake at a magnitude of 6.8. As of 8:30 a.m. local time, authorities had reported two fatalities, a woman in the city of Mixco, a western suburb of the capital, and a man in the highland city of Quetzaltenango. Both died of heart attacks, authorities said.
Images shared by the agency on social media showed rockfalls and uprooted trees blocking routes following the earthquake, including to Antigua, a colonial city popular with tourists. The initial temblor was followed by two aftershocks of above magnitude 4 in the region, according to EMSC.Reporting by Sofia Menchu in Guatemala City, Bhargav Acharya and Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Frank Jack Daniel
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