A giant earthquake strikes Mexico, reports of 5 deaths (Video/Photo)

The US Geological Survey reported the quake's magnitude as 8.1, but President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Friday it was 8.2, making it the largest one ever recorded in Mexico in the last 100 years.

He also said he was bigger than him in 1985, where he had left thousands dead, Alzeera” reported, broadcast Periscopi.

Its epicentre was 123km southwest of the town of Pi Bekipan, at a depth of 70km, according to “U n SGS”

The “was a large scale earthquake”, said Pena Nieto.

This earthquake was larger than what the Mexicans had known in 1985”, he added.

The death toll in the massive earthquake has increased to at least five people, including two children in the state of Tabasco.

Tabasco Governor Arturo Nunez said that one of the children died when one wall fell and the other child died in a hospital of children where no electricity was available and the necessary means had not worked to provide emergency assistance.

The other three dead were marked in Chiapas, and in San Cristobal de las Casas.

“Hospitals that lost energy”, he said.

“Houses, schools and hospitals have been damaged”, he added.

The quake was so powerful that frightened residents in Mexico's far - flung capital fled residence buildings, often in pajamas, and gathered in street group form./Periscopi/