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McGuirk: Mexico City Loses Only Partial Power in Nearby 7.1 Quake

Aired August 9, 2000 - 10:09 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Now to south of the border. A large earthquake hit southern Mexico's coastline near Michoacan this morning. The impact could be felt as far away as Mexico City, that's about 135 miles away.

Joining us on the phone now, "Time" magazine's correspondent Tim McGuirk. He is in Mexico City and joins us by telephone with an update now.

Tim, what did it feel like and what's the reaction?

TIM MCGUIRK, "TIME" CORRESPONDENT: Well, Bill, it was at about 6:45 this morning, people here in Mexico City were jolted awake by what seemed like a huge earthquake. They're saying it was here in Mexico. They say it's about 7.1 on the Richter scale and it lasted a long time, about 90 seconds.

Fortunately, though, as you said, that the epicenter of this quake wasn't here in Mexico City, which is right in the center of the country, but it was way out in the Pacific Ocean quite a ways. So the early reports that we're getting is that there hasn't been much damage at all, luckily.

Here in Mexico City some of the lights were knocked out for a while. But everybody is still very, very edgy after the 1985 earthquake here which killed about 20,000 people. What Mexico City is built on, an old lake bed, so that it shakes like jelly every time that there is an earthquake.

HEMMER: Tim, any effect of aftershocks felt just yet?

MCGUIRK: No, not yet, I think we've been spared from that. But, again, the region that was hit the hardest is along the Pacific Coast, the states of Michoacan and Guerrero, too, where apparently, there was one worker who was injured by falling masonry.

HEMMER: And you mentioned a power outage, has that come back just yet? or was it not that extensive?

MCGUIRK: It wasn't that extensive. It was just in a few neighborhoods here in Mexico City and they seem to have restored the power.

HEMMER: All right, Tim McGuirk there, correspondent with "Time" magazine, by telephone there in Mexico City.

Tim, thanks for the information, we'll check in throughout the day if we get more information, what's happening there in Mexico today, again, thanks.

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