Hurricane Katia made landfall in Mexico as a Category 1 storm late Friday after the country suffered a devastating magnitude 8.1 earthquake Thursday that killed at least 61 people. POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE HITS MEXICO’S COAST, TSUNAMI WAVES REPORTEDThe U.S. National Hurricane Center reported Katia’s maximum sustained winds had dropped to 75 mph when it made landfall and rapidly weakened over land into a tropical depression. Pena Nieto announced that the earthquake killed 45 people in Oaxaca state, 12 in Chiapas and four in Tabasco, and he declared three days of national mourning. The Interior Department reported that 428 homes were destroyed and 1,700 damaged just in Chiapas, the state closest to the quake's epicenter. "The arrival of #Katia may be particularly dangerous for slopes affected by the earthquake.

Source: Fox News September 09, 2017 14:03 UTC