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(Updated with Video) – At Least Ten Killed as Shallow 5.1 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Southern Spain

05/11/2011 3 comments

“An earthquake measuring 5.3 hit a town in southeast Spain today causing houses to collapse, damaging historic churches and killing at least six people.

Some reports said that the rare earthquake in Lorca, sent tremors through the region of Murcia and had affected a nursing home and the tower of an important church in the town which is dependent on farming.

The large quake struck the community on Wednesday evening, two hours after a moderate 4.7 earthquake hit the town.

‘Unfortunately, we can confirm … deaths due to cave-ins and falling debris,’ the mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, told radio station Ser.

‘We’re trying to find out if there are people inside the collapsed houses.'”  Read more.

Update:  AFP reports quake has been reduced to 5.1 but has now killed 10 people and caused widespread damage.


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