Emergency services installed on Thursday with media campaign to thousands of people sleeping in the open in Lorca after an earthquake that caused nine deaths and 130 wounded, while clearing the mantle of debris covering the streets.
The nine victims (one child), after the death of serious injury, five men and four women, police said, estimating that the figure increase because there have been warnings of disappearances.
Of the 130 injured, three in serious condition, according to the regional government.
For its part, "between 10 thousand and 15 thousand" people who spent the night in the open in parks, plazas and parks of the city for fear of aftershocks and landslides in their homes , organized to spend another night away from home, while schools were closed.
An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 degrees on the Richter scale was registered at 18:47 hours local time (16:47 GMT) on Wednesday, hours after a first quake of magnitude 4.4 that occurred at 17:05 hours, time local (15:05 GMT) in the same place as the English seismological service said, adding that since then there have been 28 movements in the area.
source: jornada.unam.mx
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