Power outages hit Mexico City after quake in country's center

MEXICO CITY - Power outages hit the Mexican capital of Mexico City on Sunday after an earthquake struck in the center of the country, and officials said there was no other damage reported.

Some restaurants and residential buildings in the capital were evacuated as a precautionary measure, they said.

Buildings shuddered in the city, a Reuters witness said.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) downgraded its initial measurement of the quake to magnitude 5.8 from 6.0.

No one at state oil company Pemex was immediately available to comment but the group has no major installations near the epicenter of the quake, 20 miles (32 km) south of the town of Santa Rosa Treinta. — Reuters