A moderate earthquake in Mexico rattled a large part of central and southern Mexico as well as neighboring Guatemala Saturday afternoon. There were no reports of damage or casualties.
The tremor struck at 2:16 p.m. CDT in the interior portion of Mexico's state of Veracruz, not far from the Oaxaca state border. The epicenter was about 300 miles east-southeast of Mexico City.
Mexico's national seismological service, SSN, assigned it a magnitude of 5.6 after initially calling it a strong 6.2 jolt. The U.S. Geological Survey analyzed it as a 5.4-magnitude . . .
