At least seven people have died from crushing and several injured in Lorca after two earthquakes have shaken in a range of barely two hours in the Region of Murcia, as the Government Office.
Fatalities have died after the collapse of two buildings in the village, led by the second earthquake. The buildings are situated one on the street Galicia and another in the neighborhood of La Viña, says the editor of TVE Ana Patricia Martinez, the rubble of the latter have taken the life of a child of thirteen.
The first earthquake, of magnitude 4.4 on the Richter scale has shaken the region to 17.00 and the second, magnitude 5.2, nearly two hours later. Both have been to the town of Lorca epicenter, 55 kilometers from the capital, reports the National Geographic Institute.
Occur immediately after the second quake, the mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, already moving in TVE might have about five dead after the collapse of both buildings.
• Lorca’s mayor says there may be between two and five people were killed by earthquakes
A city council spokesman warned that the City has been evacuated and the tower of the Church of Santiago “was opened in half and had to be cordoned off.” It has also been evicted Lorca hospital for fear of a possible collapse.
Lorca neighbors added that the situation now is “panic” that thousands of people are on the street not knowing what to do or where to go and that the shaking has surprised everyone in the middle of the routine.
The second earthquake, the main
A spokesman for the “112” has reported that emergency telephone s ervice has collapsed by about two hundred calls from people who have felt the earthquake.
According to sources in the Seismic Network of the National Geographic Institute, which put the magnitude of the quake at 5.2 degrees, the strongest earthquakes recorded in southeastern Spanish since “at least 500 years ago” have been around “five or five-odd. “
From the National Geographic Institute have indicated that the second earthquake “probably” is the main shock, while the first, which occurred at 17:05 hours, could be described as “prescient” according to scientific terminology. However, they added that “in seismology never know.”
Also explained that the Institute’s website , which provides information on earthquakes are collapsed by excessive influx of Internet users.
On March 12 there was another earthquake of magnitude 2.8 with epicenter in Lorca, where in January 2005 an earthquake of 4.7, which was followed by 500 aftershocks, caused damage to almost a thousand homes in the hamlets of Zarcilla de Ramos and La Paca.
Zapatero mobilizes EMU
The Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has ordered the mobilization of the Emergency Military Unit (UME) to the earthquake.
The Prime Minister is being promptly informed of the existing data about the consequences of the earthquake and has been in contact with the vice president, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, who was in Córdoba.
In addition, the Minister of Science and Technology, Cristina Garmendia, who was this afternoon in the town of Yecla Murcia Lorca is headed to continue on the ground the situation in this county.
Tremble also Andalusia and Albacete
Both earthquakes were felt also in Albacete, in the Andalusian provinces of Almería, Jaén, Granada, Malaga and Sevilla, sources told Efe unified emergency service 112, which have received hundreds of calls from citizens.
The first of the quakes has been noticeable in the city of Albacete and the northern municipalities of the province of Almeria and Almeria even in the capital, while the second, more intense, was also perceived by the population the provinces of Jaén, Granada, Malaga and Sevilla.
The 112 emergency service has received hundreds of calls from individuals of municipalities in these provinces, all interested in information about what happened.
Sources have indicated that there have been no material damage or personal and there is no evidence that significant incidents have occurred in these provinc