Strong quake hits off Mexico coast

WASHINGTON - A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck Saturday in the Gulf of California off Mexico's west coast, the US Geological Survey said.
The quake struck some 100 kilometers (60 miles) southwest of Los Mochis in the Sinaloa coastal region at a depth of 56 kilometers, the United States monitor said in a report.
It measured 6.3 on the Moment Magnitude scale, classed as a strong quake in the scale which measures the energy propduced by a tremor.

09/01/2007 22:03 GMT