Mexican national mourning for the death in earthquake

Mexico has declared three days of national mourning with the death toll from the earthquake off the coast of the country rising to more than 60 people.

View of damaged hotel 'Ane Centro' after a 8.2 magnitude earthquake in Matias Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico, 08 September 2017. Source: AAP

Most deaths have come in the state of Oaxaca.

The 8.1 magnitude earthquake is the most powerful to hit Mexico in a century, with the town of Juchitan on Mexico's narrowest point, hit particularly hard.

Oaxaca govenor Alejandro Murat says civillians have the government's support.

Also in Mexico, Hurricane Katia has made landfall near a beach resort in the state of Veracruz [ver-A-cruise] on the Mexican Gulf coast.

The category 1 storm landed with sustained gusts of 120 kilometres per hour, over half the wind speed of Hurricane Irma, and is not expected to do much damage.