LORCA, THE CITY SCARED EARTHQUAKE
to the election campaign has stalled, has been suspended, while making the death toll and damage caused by the earthquake in Lorca, Murcia, and make the first repairs to the resumption of everyday life in the city of Murcia. Viewers of the information of the day were put on alert on Wednesday, when, early in the afternoon, came the first reports on the earthquake that had occurred in the town of Lorca, its region and nearby provinces .. There had been an initial earthquake was followed by another a little later, and of greater intensity and duration, after which we started with a first number of casualties: two, four, eight, ten ... Then, as night, and when they got details and particulars of the tragedy, the figure was set at eight more injured, three serious and more than a hundred to varying degrees. In those first hours of the evening had already launched the Emergency Military Unit and emergency services worked, the Red Cross. Lorca citizens were thrown out after see for themselves the anxiety produced by the movement of soil, cracking walls, traces the earthquake had just occurred on many walls. Everyone was still in his mind the images of the Japanese earthquake, and the terrifying effects occurred. Information tells a newspaper Thursday that "the central Cofrentes resisted, some 200 km from Lorca, continues to operate easy, "says this timely information. Who said that Spain would have been unimaginable as the nuclear problem originated in Japan?. For two hundred miles away has been avoided, this time ... But in any case, will have been warning that a power so formidable as the soil may be pregnant. It is no less true that Murcia, as we have explained in these hours after the quake, is one of the English regions that suffers more earthquakes each year. And we must go back to 1884, when another earthquake occurred Arenas del Rey eg, caused 900 deaths and destroyed 4,500 homes. In 1999 he was shaken La Puebla de Mula. In 2007 there was another tremor in this area .. Most seismicity in Spain is precisely in that area: Murcia, Alicante, Granada, Almeria ... The president of the Association of Geologists, Luis Suarez, recently said that a destructive earthquake could reach Spain in the not too distant future. "
Most of the people of Lorca, tens of thousands of people preferred to spend the night outdoors, and testimonies have been heard this morning have reflected the fear, panic, surprise he had left behind the earthquake and dozens of aftershocks. One witness spoke of "a city turned into a refugee camp." Refugees fearful, terrified. "All the buildings are damaged, all," he told an official of local security. "The feeling has been that of Japan. You go into any house and see the television on the floor, books outside the library, the walls cracked ... "
Clearly, no one is prepared for a shock of this size and of such importance. "We are alive, which is important," summarizes a citizen still terrified, he slept in his own car, and relates that he has had occasion to pass by his house, which defines "a mess."
now is to deal with earthquake disasters: first, check for damage, to warn if the damage is easily repairable or have been damaged structures and necessitates the demolition of walls and the total reconstruction of each building. And meanwhile, it is essential to seek accommodation to affected residents, to find food for them. Do not miss the solidarity of the English, the same community and others., From the first moment the news of the tragedy generously offered their collaboration to alleviate it. "We always take your side," he proclaimed at a rally, on the afternoon of Wednesday, the Development Minister, José Blanco. And the same idea is repeated in another rally, the president of the PP, Mariano Rajoy. This Thursday, will visit where the prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. The town of Lorca and the maximum charge now do not even know in detail the needs that will, according foreknew this morning of Thursday, the mayor. Blankets, provisional residences, water, food ... All that will get to know more detail as we take a look finish and damage assessment.
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