Nearly 50 people have been killed and dozens more are missing after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit off Guatemala’s Pacific coast.
According to reports, the quake hit a very large area with damage reported in all but one of Guatemala’s 22 states.
Landslides have buried roads and buildings shook from San Salvador and as far away as Mexico City, 600 miles to the northwest.
The quake was centred 15 miles off the coastal town of Champerico and was the strongest to hit Guatemala since a 1976 temblor that left 23,000 dead.
There have already been dozens of aftershocks, four of them over a magnitude of 5.
