Breaking news this hour from townhall dot com Iran to Russia for a massive 8 point one magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of southern Mexico Thursday night toppling houses in Chiapas state and causing buildings to sway violently as far away as Mexico City some 700 miles to the north set off is to say a tsunami warning as well u.s. So an army warning system said hazardous waves were possible on the Pacific coast of several Central American skun trees including Guatemala El Salvador coastal Rica and others there was no tsunami threat for the u.s. West coast Meanwhile Hurricane Erma continues to trek through the Caribbean toward Florida it s less than 30 miles south of Grand Turk Island moving west northwest at 16 miles an hour with winds around 180 miles an hour or to Governor Rick Scott says much of the state s going to take a hard hit from the Category 5 storm regardless of where it makes landfall just because models show it closely moving close close to the east coast the west co
Major earthquake shakes southern Mexico Jack Alabam Fox News the u.s. Geological Survey now says it was an $8.00 magnitude earthquake that struck just offshore from the Mexican state of Chiapas geophysicist Jessica Turner at the u.s. Geological Survey we have a depth of about 35 kilometers which is considered sallow and because of the strain and that we are going to see aftershocks in fact there have been several aftershocks already Initial reports say houses have been toppled in Chiapas that s near the border with Guatemala the u.s. Tsunami warning system says there is the threat of a tsunami along the Pacific coastline of Mexico Guatemala El Salvador coastal reconnect Iraq will Panama and Honduras and impending natural disaster in South Florida hurricane Erma will likely slam into the state s southern tip late on Saturday unfortunately looks like a severe hurricane landfall somewhere in south Florida of the Florida Keys and so all preparations need to be completed by the end of the