New Delhi, Jan. 2 -- A powerful earthquake struck southern and central Mexico on Friday, disrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum's first press briefing of the new year as seismic alarms went off.

Mexico's national seismological agency said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.5, with its epicentre located near San Marcos in Guerrero, a southern state close to the Pacific coast resort city of Acapulco, according to PTI.

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