Mexico City  - Hurricane Jimena pulled out trees, damaged roofs and caused flooding on Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, where it was gradually losing strength Thursday.

More than 6,000 people were evacuated from their homes and taken to shelters between the towns of Comondu and Mulego, in a sparsely populated fishing area.

No one was reported dead or injured in connection with the hurricane.

Jimena - which was a category-four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale over the Pacific earlier this week - made landfall Wednesday as a category-one hurricane and had since been downgraded to a tropical storm. Since then, wind speeds have continued to decrease, although it continued to rain heavily on Baja California and other parts of northwestern Mexico.

Mexican authorities recommended that people remain alert. Flooding remained likely in lowlands, while highlands were at risk of mudslides.

Tropical Storm Jimena was on Thursday located about 55 kilometres north-northwest of Santa Rosalia, on the eastern coast of Baja California, with sustained winds of up to 85 kilometres per hour.  dpa