Michoacan authorities said Thursday that a three-year-old minor died after a fence fell on him, and a 62-year-old man suffered heart stoppage caused by the quake.

There were also material damages and four persons were injured owing to the quake which revived panic among Mexicans who recalled the 1985 one that left thousands dead and great material damage.

State government authorities disclosed

1. An earthquake struck in Mexico on 9 August 2000 at 11:41 GMT. Its epicenter was at latitude 18.19 N and longitude 102.30 W with the depth of 33 km (near 48 km/30 miles west of the coastal town of Lazaro Cardenas in the state of Michoacan, some 380 km/240 miles southwest of the capital). Its magnitude was 6.4 on the Richter scale (Source: United States Geological Survey, its website, http://quake.wr.usgs.gov).