KWTX - News - National/World - Headlines  Strong Earthquake
Strikes Off Guatemala; Deaths, Injuries Reported   GUATEMALA
CITY (November 7, 2012)--A strong earthquake struck Wednesday
off the Pacific coast of Guatemala that the U.S. Geological
Survey says had a 7.4 magnitude.  The quake shook buildings in
Guatemala City and was strong enough to send people running into
the streets as far away as Mexico City.  Guatemala's president
said he was informed that the death toll from the quake has
risen to 39 people.  President Otto Perez Molina said the dead
are in the northwestern state of San Marcos, near the Mexican
border, where the majority of the damage occurred.  A reporter
in the town of San Marcos, about 80 miles north of the
epicenter, told a local radio station that houses had collapsed
with people inside.  Fire officials say a school also collapsed
and eight injured people had been taken to a nearby hospital.
Nicaragua's disaster agency has issued a local tsunami alert,
but so far there have been no repo