Earthquake jolts Honduras-Guatemala border

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

*Great Earthquakes in Diverse Places

Earthquake jolts Honduras-Guatemala border*

2010-01-12

MANAGUA, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake rattled the
Honduran-Guatemalan border on Monday. There were no immediate reports of
casualties, according to press reports monitored here.

The tremor, measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale, struck 260 km north
of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa at 5:40 p.m. (2340 GMT), said
Francisco Moncada, an official with the country's Bureau of Disaster
Monitoring.

The quake was widely felt in Honduras' western areas and northern
Caribbean cities but no immediate reports of property damage or
casualties have been made, he said.

A tremor of 4.8 magnitude struck the same area on Dec. 31.