スペインのLORCA市の2011年05月11日のマグニチュード5·2の地震

スペインのLORCA市の2011年05月11日のマグニチュード5·2の地震
Dos terremotos sacuden Lorca y causan ocho muertos / 11/05/2011 EL PAIS
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Two earthquakes shake Lorca, causing eight deadThe earthquake left many property damage in the town of Murcia .- The government mobilizes the Military Emergency UnitJAVIER RUIZ / TONE CALLEJA | Murcia / Madrid 11/05/2011
Eight people have died this afternoon in Lorca (Murcia) and dozens injured as a result of an earthquake of magnitude 5.1, which was preceded by an earthquake of 4.5, as confirmed by the Delegation of the Government. One of the deceased is a minor. The Government delegate, Rafael González Tovar, has rectified the night the figure of 10 dead that were given during the afternoon and confirmed that eight died and two others are very serious. In addition, the number of injured stands at fifty.
The epicenter was located in the Sierra de Tercia, in the municipality of the town of Murcia. The earthquake has caused more damage between five and 10 kilometers northeast of the town, near the highway from Murcia, and felt strongly in several villages in the region, including the capital, Mazarron, Cartagena and Aguilas, and even been noted in other provinces such as Almería, Albacete and Madrid.
The A-7 was the only state highway that has been affected. To 23 hours traffic was diverted for free to the AP-7 at the height of Totana. In some tunnels and viaducts have been minor damage. The DGT has asked the drivers not intending to visit the area and the Government has mobilized the Emergency Military Unit.
Regarding rail traffic, have had problems commuter service line C-2, between the city of Murcia and Lorca, and long-distance line-Lorca Barcelona. According to Renfe, only 70 people have been affected.
Of the eight fatalities, at least three have died hit by a ledge, according to The Truth. Dozens of inmates have been injured and sick in the hospital Rafael Méndez de Lorca and were evacuated to medical facilities in Murcia, Cartagena and Cieza. The City Council has enabled a ship in the usual venue for the exhibition of Lorca for neighbors whose homes have been affected can sleep tonight.
Many residents remain on the street out of fear of new landslides. "I felt a very strong movement, with much noise and I have been very scared," said Juani Avellaneda. At home they have broken numerous vases and cornice. Worse luck has run Juana Ruiz, whose home, he says, has cracked a whole. "I opened the house and all the furniture has been dropped," says this woman who was terrified inside their homes when the quake occurred. "We're having a hard time," says his nephew before hanging up distressed.
A neighbor in the Avenida Juan Carlos I have been told that there have been cracks in the building and all the people "is in the streets and the phones do not work." It has dropped the bell tower and the roof of the church of the Virgen de las Huertas, there has been damage to the historic castle of Lorca and cornices have fallen pieces such as the Palacio de San Julián.
In one of the nursing homes in the city, in the Alameda area, landslides have occurred on the roof and the residents have had to be evacuated. The mayor of this town, Francisco Jodar, said that there have been falling tiles and cornices in the village, so that the City has enabled the municipal emergency plan while the Government of Murcia has implemented Level 2 Plan Emergency to the seismic risk of the Autonomous Community of Murcia (Sismimur). All emergency services have been activated.
Murcia is in the most seismically active area of ​​Spain. The director of the national seismic network of National Geographic Institute, Emilio Carreno, explained that the site is "short faults in an east-west and northeast-southwest." At 17:05 there was a magnitude 4.5 earthquake in northeastern 18.47 Lorca and another tremor of magnitude 5.1. Carreno explains that there has been damage because it was "very superficial", but in that area the potential is there an earthquake of 6.5. Carreño said that the quake was felt in parts of Madrid Plaza de Castilla and the People of Vallecas, which are based on gypsum, land that amplify the shaking.
In 2005 another earthquake, then 4.6, and centered in the upper districts of Lorca and Bullas, Murcia hit two municipalities, with no reported personal injury, although damage was caused in a number of houses. The quake was also felt in the provinces of Almería, Granada, Jaén, Albacete, Ciudad Real, Alicante and Valencia. The National Geographic Institute called it "slightly harmful" and said it posted a reply 10 minutes after 3.4 degrees, which was felt in the region of Murcia. Not so with the 31 aftershocks of magnitude, which occurred later.
The earthquake on Wednesday in Lorca has been the most serious incident of its kind in the past 30 years in Spain.
After the announcement, the parties immediately suspended campaign events planned in Murcia before the next round of the 22-M. Late in the night, Zapatero and Rajoy have agreed to discontinue the campaign in Spain during the whole day on Thursday and travel to the area.
The vice president, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba and Defense Minister, Carme Chacón, will also come early in the morning to Lorca on the ground to assess damage and needs more urgent. The PSOE's electoral committee will decide in the coming hours of the campaign changes to the earthquake in Lorca.
Similarly, the Development Minister, José Blanco, has shortened the rally was in the town of Langreo (Asturias) to return to Madrid and his team assess damage to infrastructure, information Anabel Díez.
The Autonomous Region has decided to suspend classes in schools and colleges on Thursday in the entire municipality of Lorca, and will not authorize the reopening before the evaluation of damage in buildings.
EMU sends 350 troops
A total of 350 effective members of the Third Battalion of the Military Emergency Unit (UME), based in Betera (Valencia), have moved to Lorca, as confirmed by a spokesman for the agency. Its mission is to find and rescue victims, but do not rule out having to pursue other goals as the day.
The first to leave have been 25 military members of a group of first responders. That was just before the eight pm, according to the spokesman of the EMU, and is expected to arrive in one hour or less.
The military has moved at the request of the Regional Government of Murcia and the Delegation of the Government in this region. EMU sources explained that they are prepared to move more effective if they are required upon arrival and assess the needs have been earthquakes.
F. J. BARROSO

"Ha empapezado a saltar el alicatado del suelo como si estuviera vivo"
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"He started to jump the tiled floor as if he were alive"Murcia locals tell of panic after the two earthquakes that have shaken the areaPATRICIA R. WHITE / NATALIA JUNQUERA - Madrid - 11/05/2011
"We are very nervous, because we are afraid to return to have another earthquake," said Paloma Sanz, resident in the town of Lorca Murcia. This afternoon, two earthquakes, one of 4.9 degrees and a 5.2, have rattled the city and caused, by the time the deaths of ten people, according to the delegation of the Government in Murcia. "The first has been longer but softer, and the second most intense," says Dove, waiting on the street with other neighbors to have new replicas.
Police have called door to door to evacuate homes. "We just told us to go quickly," says Mary Alcaraz, in a telephone interview with the country. Civil protection services to address citizens' parks and open areas because many have fallen rubble of the houses, even entire buildings have collapsed, "says Pedro," nervousness "that permeates Lorca. "My wife has seen the tower fell the sanctuary of the Virgen de las Huertas," he adds.
The cars were "shattered." Rosario, 56, was in the neighborhood of La Viña, "which they say is the most affected" when the earthquake occurred. "I had just come home and everything I have begun to fall over. The second we are scared and my daughter who is pregnant, we went out into the street. The staircase was wide open. He had fallen from the roof of the building front and also the medical center, "says the woman.
Many citizens have been injured as a result of the earthquake. "Just had to attend a patient. We went all out into the street and had to meet people, some with serious injuries, many unconscious, because ambulances could not reach. Took over 40 minutes. Right now just be a kid that a wall fell over, had contusions, "says Virtue, a local doctor. In the hospital Virgen de Alcázar, can not stop talking. "We are in an emergency situation," says a doctor.
A nursing assistant, Maria del Mar, says that "the police were very nervous and they asked us to help address traffic was injured because collapsed." Now Maria del Mar is in the field, six miles, waiting for another reply: "Here I am watching the sky, so it can not fall all over. And I've been afraid to go see if my house was damaged. It is almost new has two years "
"This is chaos," laments Jesus Ruiz. "There are buildings cracked and the floor is filled with rubble and cornices. I saw how he sewed a guy's head," says Jesus, who has experienced the earthquake at work, in an industrial area. He added: "It was not my first earthquake, but undoubtedly the strongest."
Eliseo Lopez, owner of Nissan and Renault dealers in Lorca, worked in one of the ships when there were two earthquakes. "I felt a tremendous roar, has begun to move the floor, chipping the tiles cracking as if he were alive," he tells Elysée, which describes the situation as "a gruesome spectacle." In business a man has been injured to drop you a piece of roof on the head. "Other employees have lost their homes, with all his memories and his life inside," he explains.
Sole has lived through two earthquakes at home. "I went to the park after the second because my mother has a disability and have helped out family and neighbors," he says from a park where he hopes "other two earthquakes," as authorities have confirmed them. Virtues commented: "We are awaiting replies scared to death, have told us that at half past eight."
The quake was felt 60 km from Lorca
Cristina Selva, 32, the earthquake has "caught" at home in Murcia. "I was playing with my two young daughters, who have two years. He moved the building and I've scared a lot by girls. I've caught and we put all three under the table waiting to happen," said Cristina. "They were the longest 20 seconds of my life," he continues. His parents, who live in Lorca, told him he had "lost all of the shelves, which had cracks in the house and were afraid to sleep there tonight if he fell off the building."
The regional deputy housing IU in Murcia, José Antonio Pujante, also suffered the effects of the earthquake: "All the furniture is on the floor. My wife has gone to the country because they do not trust" that was specified Pujante a rally in Los Alcazares. After hearing the news immediately suspended, as the other parties, and moved to Lorca, reports Tone Calleja.
Lorca and 60 km in the municipality of Cehegín, Antonio Martinez had to hold for several seconds the TV in the living room. "If it had not fallen," lamented the young man, whose mother, Jane, could attend as all the furniture in the house was moved to five centimeters, "It was incredible, but there has been great damage."

Un terremoto de 4'6 grados y mas de 30 replicas sacuden Murcia
30/01/2005
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An earthquake of 4.6 degrees and more than 30 aftershocks shake MurciaThe earthquake, which caused no casualties, he was in seven provincesTONE CALLEJA - Murcia - 30/01/2005
An earthquake of 4.6 magnitude on the Richter scale with its epicenter in the districts high Lorca and Bullas, hit 8.41 yesterday to two municipalities in Murcia, with no reported personal injury, although damage was caused by number of dwellings. The quake was also felt in the provinces of Almería, Granada, Jaén, Albacete, Ciudad Real, Alicante and Valencia.
The quake could be widely seen and felt in the towns of Bullas Murcia, Lorca, Cehegín and Caravaca de la Cruz.
The National Geographic Institute, which called it a "slightly harmful", posted a reply 10 minutes after nine o'clock of 3.4 on the Richter scale, which could be felt in the region. Not so with the 31 aftershocks of magnitude, which occurred later.
The earthquake was centered in the districts high Lorca, specifically La Paca (1,068 inhabitants) and Palm Zarcilla (1,077 residents), where damage occurred in several buildings. Specifically, the main consequences of the earthquake were cracks in buildings, glass windows burst, collapse of cornices, stucco and roofs and broken pipes and falling of dishes and other objects.
Local police said Lorca, there are at least eight houses sealed the cracks appeared, which were reviewed by local architects. The Civil Guard barracks tendrils of Ramos, as well as the health center and social center of La Paca, were, together with some houses, buildings more earthquake damage, as confirmed by the Minister of the Presidency Fernando de la Cierva, responsible for coordinating the activities of the autonomous region before the earthquake.
A Civil Guard report says more than 200 homes Zarcilla de Ramos and La Paca were affected to varying degrees. Most were 38 houses damaged, 36 of them located in Zarcilla and two in La Paca. Residents of these 38 homes could not sleep in them.
For this reason, the Government of Murcia enabled two shelters to accommodate residents who had to leave their homes, although most people were going to spend the night in homes of friends or relatives. Also set up a tent provided by the city of Lorca, for use if needed, according to the president of the Region of Murcia, Ramón Luis Valcárcel.
Precisely because of the state in which homes were affected, many residents remained all day in the streets. Three psychologists disaster response team of the College of Psychologists of Murcia moved in the early hours of the morning to the deputation of Zarcilla lorquina Palm to reassure the population. They handle cases of panic and anxiety, and a seizure. According to a neighbor, his house had "cracked a finger over" his "roof is all cleared," and recalled that when he felt the tremor "the house was going from one place to another," Efe reported.
The area was established Civil Protection device had to cut some Zarcilla streets because of the risk posed by the collapse of tiles and cornices. Until the people also moved troops from Lorca Park Fire and Civil Guard.
The owner of the village pharmacy, Manuela Gomez Merlos, said he felt the tremor while getting dressed for work: "It was a tremendous shock, a sense of disorientation horrible," he said. Apothecary, he could feel the main mirror a few minutes later, said that in the interior of your pharmacy shelves fell all a result of the earthquake, and said that in her home collapsed on top of the floor.
Antonia Lopez, a resident of the village of La Paca, said his people also in the earthquake caused damage. "We know we have given the neighboring beams, and roofs have fallen. It is the strongest earthquake we remember, and it has been very long."
The Civil Guard inspected other towns near the epicenter, as Doña Inés, Coy and Aviles, although the damage there "are not considered."
The quake could be felt in other provinces. The Emergency Center of the Generalitat Valenciana received calls from people who reported having noticed tremors in Petrel (Alicante) and in Ontinyent (Valencia). Also in the city of Valencia felt the earthquake.
This is the second earthquake has caused damage to the districts high Lorca within two years. In August 2002, another earthquake, with epicenter also Bullas and 4.5 magnitude on the Richter scale, caused extensive damage to buildings in the hamlets high Lorca.
The largest earthquake in the Murcia region occurred in 1999, and reached magnitude 5.2.

"Es difficl pensar en futbol cuand van a demoler tu casa"
14/05/2011
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"It's hard to think of football when going to demolish your home"Outrage in Lorca's refusal Murcia Federation to suspend its game against earthquake EsteponaALEJANDRO Ciriza - Madrid - 14/05/2011
"We still shaky legs," says José Carlos Olivares, captain of Atlético Lorca, recalls the episode when they faced initial squad Murcia on Wednesday, when a double jolt of the earth's crust cracked from top to bottom town, shattered their homes and claimed nine lives. "We heard the talk of Mr. and suddenly began to crumble the walls of the locker room. They looked like paper!" Reconstructs the footballer. That was only the first charge, of 4.5. "We ran out instinctively." The second, 5.1, and caught them in an annex to the stadium car park Artes Carrasco.
Today, three days after the tragedy, technicians calibrate still damages to the premises, for which grass and military vehicles parade now sits a makeshift field hospital. "Impress, the image is surreal," says Christopher Sanchez, president of the entity. Like many other citizens, many staff members spent the night outdoors on the beach, for fear of another earthquake. "Many have become homeless," says the president, the next day requested the postponement of Murcia Federation league match against Estepona.
In Group IV of the Second Division B, the Lorca is played this weekend, much of their aspirations to retain the category. Nevertheless, and despite the suspension of 30 other meetings, the body's response has been swift. "The Federation believes that the match must be played, but they are completely mistaken. Even the president of Estepona suggested we postpone the match," said Sanchez, who adds: "Apparently, they believe that football is over tragedy ".
In the end, fear stuck in the body, team members must move tomorrow Lorca Murcia, where he will jump on the field of New Condomina to defend their place in Segunda B. "There have been some tough days. It is impossible to think of football when they are about to demolish your home," added the captain, Olivares, "The conditions are very special. They should have a little common sense, have a little more sensitivity . It seems that for them the party is more important. " In total, half of the homes of staff members look a red cross sign of danger.
One of the few to emerge unscathed was the goalkeeper Juanmi, located on the outskirts of Lorca, and that night he had to take in seven of his companions. "We're going to Murcia to do our work, earn and try to give a little joy to people," says Oliver, "we'll do for the victims and all those families are faring so badly." As noted by President, 50% of the ticket will go to help people who have come out worse off, but not the only help. Unai Emery's Valencia, which opened on the bench in the club Murcia, will donate 6,000 euros yesterday, the recent champions, the club, showed a message of support: "Llorca at nostre cor (Lorca in our hearts)" .

2'500 terrremotos al año en Españqa
11/05/2011
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2,500 earthquakes a year in SpainThe highest hazard rating in the Spanish territory is in the south and southeast of the peninsulaEFE - Madrid - 11/05/2011
In Spain there are about 2,500 earthquakes a year, of which only averaged about two a month are felt by the population, according to the Spanish Seismic Network. The highest hazard rating in the Spanish territory is in the south and southeast of the peninsula, around Granada, the south of the province of Alicante and Almeria and Murcia. Atlantic area off Cape San Vicente in southwest Portugal, is one of the most seismically active in the world, but the harmful effects of earthquakes generated there are dwarfed by the hundreds of kilometers from the coastal zone Portuguese and Spanish. It is located a so-called "triple point", a place where the plates contact and friction Eurasian, African and Atlantic.
A 'tsunami' of 15 feet
In the environment of Cape St. Vincent were also several strong earthquakes occurred as the August 24, 1356 that caused significant damage to Sevilla or occurred on 1 November 1755, known as the Lisbon earthquake, which carries a tsunami of about 15 meters. This earthquake destroyed part of the capital, causing damage in Huelva and Cadiz, and was felt in much of Europe. Another more recent in this area was that of February 28, 1969, magnitude 7.3, for which four people died because of heart attack that left 18 houses uninhabitable in Huelva and also collapsed in Isla Cristina 4 houses.
Also in 1829 there was a magnitude 9 earthquake, centered in the Lower Segura, which resulted in 839 deaths and 2,965 buildings destroyed. Several towns in the area, like Torrevieja, Guardamar and Almoradi, had to be rebuilt. Since the 1884 earthquake, with epicenter in Arenas del Rey (Granada) and caused 800 fatalities and 400 wounded, most of the earthquakes that occurred in Spain has had tragic consequences because of its low intensity, generally lower than magnitud5 .
The strongest, 200 years ago
The strongest earthquakes occurred in Spain as well as those that occurred in 1829 and 1884, took place in 1956, 1969, 2005 and two in 2007 (February 12 and August 12). On April 20, 1956 killed 12 people over 70 were injured and half a thousand buildings collapsed because of the violent earthquake that badly damaged neighborhoods of Zenete Granada, Berricuelo and Cartuja and the peoples of Alborg and Atarfe.
On February 28, 1969, an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 to about 350 kms southwest of the peninsula in the Atlantic Ocean, which was felt at dawn in Spain and because of which killed four people heart attack. The disaster caused great losses in the olive sector, particularly in the locality Mondrón Malaga.
In addition there have been movements that have been received with concern by the public. On February 2, 1999 there were two earthquakes (magnitude 5.2 and 3.5), followed by several weaker aftershocks in the region of Murcia. In Puebla de Mula (where the epicenter was located), Mula, Albudeite y Campos del Rio, there were a score of injuries (a severe head injury). Three years later, on August 6, 2002 was a magnitude 4.5 earthquake with its epicenter in Bullas (Murcia), which also caused minor injuries to a woman and damage to property in the districts high Lorca.
Likewise on 29 January 2005, there was an earthquake of magnitude 4.7 and 500 aftershocks in the days following, with its epicenter in the town of Bullas Murcia, Murcia besides was felt in the provinces of Almería, Granada, Jaén , Albacete, Ciudad Real, Alicante and Valencia. Destroyed 800 homes in Zarzilla Ramos and La Paca, Lorca (Murcia). Later on February 3 were recorded aftershocks of 4.2, 3 and 3.5, but caused no injuries.
Another which caused great alarm occurred on February 12, 2007, magnitude 6.1, the strongest sense in Spain since 1969, which was centered about 200 miles from Cape San Vicente Portuguese. Occurred at 11.35 and continued the same two replicates (2.8 and 3.1 magnitude), although none were felt by the population. The measuring 6.1 was felt in almost the whole peninsula and even led to evictions of many buildings, caused no injuries or material.
Also on August 12, 2007 there was another earthquake of 5.1 with its epicenter in Ciudad Real, which was felt in almost the entire peninsula and caused alarm to many citizens, but no casualties, but damage, it completely destroyed the room conference of the Municipal Theatre of Almagro, a nineteenth-century landmark building. The rarity of earthquakes in the region of La Mancha led the temporary installation of a mobile seismic unit to pinpoint the failure of Ciudad Real, causing the movement.
Chronology of earthquakes in Spain since 1980
November 11, 1980 .- Earthquake of 4.3 Richter scale with epicenter in the Sierra de Albarrama affects Hornachuelos area (Córdoba).
March 5, 1981 .- Earthquake of 4.9 Richter scale with its epicenter about 20 miles offshore, affecting the area of ​​Altea (Alicante).
January 6, 1982 .- 4.8 Richter scale earthquake in the northwest, centered between the Valley of Roncal from Navarra and the Canal de Verdun (South Western Pyrenees), is felt in the Basque Country, Navarra, La Rioja, Aragon High and Catalonia.
June 22, 1982 .- Earthquake of 4.9 Richter scale with epicenter about 350 km from Toledo, is felt in Pamplona, ​​Navarra, Bilbao, Leioa and Las Arenas.
12 and September 13, 1984 .- Several earthquakes affecting the Almería province. The largest of 5 on the Richter scale, was felt in the area Níjar Country.
May 9, 1989 .- 4.5 Richter scale earthquake in the Canaries.
March 21, 1991 .- 5.6 Richter scale earthquake in the Canary islands of Hierro and Las Palmas.
March 19, 1992 .- Earthquake of 4.5 Richter scale in the Girona area of ​​Cerdanya and Ripoll.
23 and May 24, 1993 .- Several earthquakes (the largest was 4.5 on the Richter scale) with epicenter north of Morocco, are felt in Melilla, Chafarinas, Malaga and Almeria.
December 23, 1993 .- 5.1 Richter scale earthquake in Adra (Almeria), is felt in Andalusia, Ciudad Real, Toledo and Madrid.
January 3, 1994 .- Two earthquakes (4 and 5 on the Richter scale) affect Granada and Malaga.
January 5, 1994 .- 5.5 Richter scale earthquake in Adra (Almería).
24 and September 26, 1994 .- Two earthquakes (4.5 and 3.9 on the Richter scale), with its epicenter in the sea (110 km north of Menorca and 204 km from Barcelona), affect the Balearic Islands and Catalonia.
March 17, 1995 .- Several earthquakes (the largest was 4 on the Richter scale), Malaga and Granada.
June 7, 1995 .- 3.9 Richter scale earthquake in Almería (capital) and stocks Níjar and Carboneras.
October 29, 1995 .- Earthquake of 4.6 Richter scale in several areas of Galicia.
November 30, 1995 .- Earthquake of 4.5 Richter scale in Galicia, León and Asturias.
December 1, 1995 .- Earthquake of 4.5 Richter scale in Galicia, which mainly affected the population of Becerreá Lugo.
February 18, 1996 .- Earthquake of 4.5 Richter scale in northern Gerona and Barcelona.
April 17, 1996 .- Earthquake of 5.6 Richter scale with epicenter in Montilla (Córdoba).
August 3, 1996 .- Earthquake of 4.1 Richter scale in Albarracín (Teruel).
December 28, 1996 .- Earthquake of 4.1 Richter scale in Granada and Malaga.
February 4, 1997 .- Earthquake of 4.1 Richter scale with epicenter in the towns and Becerreá Sarria Lugo.
February 24, 1997 .- Earthquake of 4.3 Richter scale in the province of Granada.
May 1, 1997 .- 4.3 Richter scale earthquake in the west coast of the province of Huelva.
21 / 25 May 1997 .- Several earthquakes (the largest, 5.1 on the Richter scale), centered between the towns of Sarria Lugo (one died of heart attack), and Becerreá Triascastela, mainly affect Galicia, Asturias, León and Zamora and did replicas in Madrid and Andalusia.
June 8, 1997 .- 3.7 Richter scale earthquake in the southwestern area of ​​Pinoso (west of the province of Alicante) and four more earthquakes in Lugo, Seville and Murcia.
June 21, 1997 .- Movement of 3.1 Richter scale earthquake in the south of the province of Lugo.
June 28, 1997 .- Earthquake of 3.7 degrees Richter, centered between the towns and Becerreá Sarria Lugo.
August 30, 1997 .- Three earthquakes (3.6, 3.5 and 3.4 degrees Richter) with epicenter in the Valley Urola, shake the border between Guipuzcoa and Vizcaya.
May 29, 1998 .- 4 degrees Richter earthquake with its epicenter in Celanova (Orense).
22/24 January 1999 .- Seven earthquakes in southern Spain, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
February 2, 1999 .- Two earthquakes (5.2 and 3.5 degrees Richter), followed by several weaker aftershocks, shaking the region of Murcia. The towns of Puebla de Mula (epicenter), Mula, Albudeite and Campos del Río, where there were two dozen wounded (one of them severe head trauma), were most affected. The tremor was felt in Valencia, Castellón, Alicante, Albacete, Cuenca, Almeria and Madrid.
May 18, 1999 .- Earthquake of 3.3 Richter scale Richter scale with its epicenter east of Mula (Murcia).
June 15, 1999 .- Earthquake of 3.7 Richter scale with epicenter in Albox (American). Damage were recorded.
June 17, 1999 .- Earthquake of 3.1 Richter scale with epicenter at 46 kilometers east of Alicante.
January 3, 2000 .- 3.5 Richter scale earthquake in the region of La Garrotxa (Girona).
March 27, 2000 .- 3.6 Richter scale earthquake in Huelva.
April 22, 2000 .- Two earthquakes of moderate intensity in the east of the peninsula. The first, 3.8 on the Richter scale with epicenter north of the Alicante town of Dolores and the second, 4 on the Richter scale with its epicenter in Berniel (Murcia) July 26
2000 .- Earthquake of 3.4 Richter scale with epicenter in the city of Granada in Turon.
August 14, 2000 .- 3.5 Richter scale earthquake with its epicenter 43 kilometers west of the island of Alboran, whose effects are felt in the city of Melilla.
August 23, 2000 .- Earthquake of 3.9 Richter scale in Lorca (Murcia).
December 13, 2000 .- Earthquake of 4.1 Richter scale with epicenter in Tarifa (Cadiz), sit on the Campo de Gibraltar, Sevilla, Punta Umbria (Huelva) and Huelva.
February 4, 2001 .- 3.3 Richter scale earthquake in southwestern Albuñol (Granada).
May 21, 2001 .- Earthquake of 3.3 Richter scale with its epicenter in the town of Wheeler's Pan (Zamora).
June 21, 2001 .- Earthquake of 3.6 Richter scale with epicenter in Pliego (Murcia).
July 17, 2001 .- Earthquake of 3.7 Richter scale with epicenter in southwest Nerpio (Albacete).
September 19, 2001 .- Earthquake of 3.7 Richter scale with epicenter in the northwest of San José (Almería).
September 23, 2001 .- Earthquake of 4.3 Richter scale with its epicenter in the Alicante town of Benimeli. On successive days had more than ten aftershocks February 4, 2002 .- Earthquake of 4.8 Richter scale with epicenter in the town of Gergal (Almería).
March 18, 2002 .- tremor of 3.7 on the Richter scale, locally Irurzun Navarra.
March 31, 2002 .- Earthquake of 3.8 Richter scale with epicenter in the northwest of San José del Valle (Cádiz).
May 16, 2002 .- Earthquake of 4.9 Richter scale with its epicenter 43 kilometers southwest of the town of Tarbes (southern France), is felt in Aragon and the Basque Country. Subsequently, there was a replica of 4.5 degrees.
August 6, 2002 .- Earthquake of 4.5 Richter scale with its epicenter in Bullas (Murcia), causing minor injuries to a woman and damage to property in the districts high Lorca.
August 24, 2002 .- Earthquake of 4.2 Richter scale with epicenter in the southwest of Malaga.
August 30, 2002 .- 3.2 Richter scale earthquake, located 9.4 miles deep between the municipalities of La Zubia and Ogíjares, metropolitan belt towns of Granada.
September 3, 2002 .- 3.6 Richter scale earthquake in southwestern Armuña de Almanzora (Almería).
September 15, 2002 .- Earthquake of 3.8 Richter scale with its epicenter in southern Puebla de Cazalla (Sevilla).
October 3, 2002 .- Earthquake of 3.3 Richter scale, affected localities Ourense A Rua, O Bolo and Larouco.
October 20, 2002 .- 3 Richter scale earthquake in the southeast of Baza (Granada).
November 21, 2002 .- 4.4 Richter scale earthquake with epicentral area south of Torremolinos, is felt in the towns of Torremolinos Malaga, Benalmádena, Jaén, Velez-Malaga and Fuengirola, as well as in Malaga, Cordoba and Granada .
December 10, 2002 .- Earthquake of 4.4 Richter scale with epicenter at 103 kilometers southeast of the Portuguese town of Faro, is felt in Huelva, Seville and Malaga.
December 28, 2002 - Earthquake of 3.2 magnitude on the Richter scale, whose epicenter is located south of Ponte Caldelas (Pontevedra), registered in Vigo.
January 12, 2003 - The National Geographic Institute detected a 4.3 magnitude earthquake with epicenter in the town of Villalcampo (Zamora).
April 9, 2003 - An earthquake of 3 `5 magnitude on the Richter scale shook Zarcilla de Ramos (Murcia), alerting the population.
April 29, 2003 - The National Geographic Institute reported an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.3 on the Richter scale occurred 26 miles southwest of Tenerife.
September 16, 2003 .- An earthquake of 4.3 magnitude on the Richter Scale was recorded in Valencia appreciated especially in the metropolitan area, without causing damage.
September 21, 2003 .- Five days after Valencia were in an earthquake of 4.6 magnitude on the Richter Scale with its epicenter in the Mediterranean Sea 35 miles east of Valencia, or another 4.2 degrees.
October 29, 2003 - An earthquake measuring 3 degrees on the Richter scale, recorded in Gran Canaria caused alarm among the population of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
January 30, 2004 .- An earthquake of magnitude 3.3 degrees on the Richter scale was felt in parts of the province of Zamora, with the epicenter located west of Wheeler's Pan
August 10, 2004 .- The province of Granada suffered an earthquake of 3.2 degrees. According to the National Geographic Institute, these earthquakes are quite normal in this area.
December 2004 .- The Melilla recorded several earthquakes of magnitude 5.5 and 5 degrees on the Richter Scale. On 9 another magnitude 5 quake was centered in Nador (Morocco).
December 29, 2004 .- The people of Melilla slightly felt an earthquake of magnitude 4.4, located ten environment Nador, Morocco.
January 4, 2005 .- The earthquake registered 3.5 magnitude on the Richter scale with epicenter at 66 kilometers below the bottom of the Alboran Sea, which was felt in Malaga.
January 15, 2005 .- The Spanish Seismic Network recorded an earthquake with its epicenter located north of Vielha (Lleida), 2.8 degrees on the Richter scale.
January 18, 2005 .- The earthquake registered 2.8 on the Richter scale hit the area between Algodonales Olvera, Cadiz, and Moron de la Frontera (Sevilla).
January 21, 2005 .- The registered an earthquake of magnitude 3.05 in Mallorca, which was felt in Sant Joan, Montuiri, Lloret de Vistalegre, Sineu, Vilafranca Sencelles and Bonan. Another earthquake of magnitude 1.5 was felt off the coast of Malaga and a 2.1 quake centered in Faro (Portugal), near Huelva.
January 22, 2005 .- We have detected an earthquake of magnitude 1.8 in Torrevieja, south of the province of Alicante, with its epicenter in the sea.
January 24, 2005 .- The earthquake registered a magnitude of 3.1 on the Richter scale in Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz).
January 29, 2005 .- The earthquake registered a 4.7 Richter magnitude and 500 aftershocks in the days following, with its epicenter in the town of Bullas Murcia, Murcia besides was felt in the provinces of Almería, Granada, Jaén, Albacete, Ciudad Real, Alicante and Valencia. The quake destroyed 800 homes in Zarzilla Ramos and La Paca, belonging to Lorca (Murcia). Feb. 3 recorded aftershocks of 4.2, 3 and 3.5 on the Richter scale, but caused no injuries.
February 4, 2005 .- 25 earthquakes are recorded in the northwest of Lorca, the most relevant, with magnitude 3.5 on the Richter scale, forcing 90 residents to spend the night in two tents set up by the City.
6 and 7 February 2005 .- There were two earthquakes of 2.6 and 2.5 degrees on the Richter scale in the region of Murcia, the first centered in Lorca and the second in Aledoe.
February 9, 2005 .- The registered an earthquake of 2.9 degrees in the Girona region of La Selva, without causing injury or property damage.
February 16, 2005 .- The four earthquakes recorded in the town of Aledo Murcia, the largest magnitude of 2.8.
February 20, 2005 .- An earthquake measuring 4 degrees with its epicenter in Puebla del Maestre (Badajoz), was felt in several towns of Badajoz and Seville.
February 24, 2005 .- There is an earthquake of magnitude 2.7 on the Richter scale. It was noted in the municipalities of Gáldar and Agaete, northwest of the island of Gran Canaria.
24-25 and February 27, 2005 .- three earthquakes occur in waters of the Strait. The first 100 miles at sea southwest of Cadiz 4 degrees, 25 February, an earthquake of 1.8 degrees, 18 miles northwest of La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz) and the third at 50 kilometers in the sea ​​to the southwest of Algeciras (Cádiz) and 34 kilometers from the coast of Ceuta, 2.6 on the Richter scale.
February 27, 2005 .- The earthquake registered a 3.5 magnitude on the Richter scale in the area of ​​Lac de Mar, on the border of the regions of Alta Ribagorza and Val d'Aran in the Pyrenees and the 3 6 degrees in El Cabo de la Nao, between Javea and Calpe (Alicante), with its epicenter 52 kilometers from the coast.
March 13, 2005 .- It is recorded in Alcasser (Valencia), two earthquakes of 2 and 1.3 degrees on the Richter scale.
March 22, 2005 .- The earthquake registered 4.7 degrees on the Richter scale south of Nador (Morocco), which was felt in Melilla "in a small way."
March 23, 2005 .- It detected a small earthquake of 2.7 on the Richter scale, in Medina Sidonia (Cádiz).
March 29, 2005 .- The earthquake registered 2.6 degrees on the Richter scale in the Aran Valley and another in the region of Ripoll (Gerona), 2.5 degrees.
March 31, 2005 .- The quake registered a 3.7 magnitude on the Richter scale in several towns in the area west of Almeria.
April 13, 2005 .- A small earthquake of 1.7 on the Richter scale, was recorded west of Aledo (Murcia).
April 18, 2005 .- It shows a quake with an epicenter in the sea of ​​the gulf of magnitude 3.1 on the Richter scale and another 1.4 degrees Urroz (Navarra).
April 21, 2005 .- The earthquake registered a 2.3 on the Richter scale in the province of Murcia.
June 9, 2005 .- an earthquake is recorded in the northeast of Almeria, with its epicenter in Arboleas.
June 14, 2005 .- An earthquake of 3.2 magnitude on the Richter scale was recorded between the municipalities of San Roque and Los Barrios (Cádiz).
July 2, 2005 .- The quake registered a 3.7 magnitude on the Richter scale was felt in Melilla, Nerja and Vélez (Málaga).
August 13, 2005 .- It felt an earthquake measuring 2.1 degrees on the Richter scale in Taboada (Lugo).
September 7, 2005 .- The earthquake registered 3.1 degrees was felt in La Rioja, Santa Fe de Mondujar, and Gador (Almería).
October 29, 2005 .- There is an earthquake of 3.0 degrees on the Richter scale between Mazarrón and Totana (Murcia).
November 24, 2005 .- An earthquake of 3.1 magnitude on the Richter scale shook the coast of Bizkaia in Bermeo.
December 12, 2005 .- We have detected an earthquake measuring 1.9 on the Richter scale with epicenter in Videmala (Zamora).
December 16, 2005 .- The quake registered a magnitude 2.7 on the Richter scale with epicenter in Gérgal (Almería).
December 20, 2005 .- It is an earthquake of 3.4 on the Richter scale with epicenter in northeast Membrio (Cáceres).
December 28, 2005 .- The earthquake registered a 3 degrees on the Richter scale with its epicenter in the region of Alt Urgell (Lleida).
December 29, 2005 .- Two earthquakes of 4.4 and 4.5 degrees on Richter scale shakes central Portugal, which was felt in different municipalities of Cáceres and Badajoz.
December 30, 2005 .- An earthquake of 2.2 magnitude on the Richter scale was recorded with an epicenter in Huarte (Navarra).
January 17, 2006 .- There is an earthquake of 1.7 magnitude on the Richter scale was felt between the arts (Barcelona) and Avignon (France).
January 22, 2006 .- An earthquake measuring 4.0 was felt in Extremadura, with epicenter at Feria, Badajoz.
February 25, 2006 .- It is recorded in the towns of Cieza Murcia, Abarán and White 3-degree earthquake with its epicenter in Cieza.
February 26, 2006 .- It records an earthquake of 3.2 degrees in several municipalities of Málaga, which was felt in Cuevas del Becerro, Cañete la Real or Ardales.
March 8, 2006 .- An earthquake of 3 degrees shakes the town of Lorca (Murcia), which was "widely felt by the population."
March 10, 2006 .- The earthquake registered 4.5 on the Valencian region Ademuz corner, between the villages of High and Casas Bajas Casas.
April 5, 2006 .- The registered an earthquake of 3.3 degrees in the northeast of Murcia. It was felt in Murcia, Molina de Segura, Fortuna, Santonera and Cartagena.
April 6, 2006 .- An earthquake of 3.2 magnitude on the Richter Scale was felt near the town of Ardales Malaga.
April 17, 2006 .- There is an earthquake with epicenter in Villacañas (Toledo), with a magnitude of 3.3 degrees on the Richter scale.
April 23, 2006 .- It registered a magnitude 5 earthquake on the Richter scale, off the coast of A Coruña without causing personal injury or material. The epicenter was located underground in an area 61 kilometers from the Galician coast and there were eleven aftershocks, including one of 3.4 degrees.
June 8, 2006 .- There is a three-point earthquake on the Richter scale in Arcos (Spain).
June 10, 2006 .- The quake registered a 3.8 on the Richter scale in the province of León, with its epicenter in Castrillo de Cabrera. Leon was felt in capital, Benavente, Lugo and the center of Oviedo.
July 9, 2006 .- There is a 2.8 earthquake in Ayamonte (Huelva).
July 28, 2006 .- The recorded two earthquakes of 2.0 and 1.9 degrees on the Richter scale with its epicenter in the Atlantic Ocean, south of the coast of Huelva.
August 4, 2006 .- There is an earthquake of 2.6 in La Seu d'Urgell (Lleida).
August 27, 2006 .- It shows a 2-degree earthquake with its epicenter in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Huelva.
November 17, 2006 .- There is an earthquake of 4.5 magnitude on the Richter scale in Lourdes (France), which was felt in Catalonia, especially in the province of Lleida, Barcelona and Girona.
December 9, 2006 .- The earthquake registered 2.5 degrees on the Richter scale hit the province of Alicante, with its epicenter in Tibi.
December 13, 2006 .- The National Geographic Institute detects an earthquake in the Gulf of Cadiz, with a magnitude of 3.34 on the Richter scale.
January 2, 2007 .- The two earthquakes of 3.6 recorded in Moron de la Frontera (Sevilla).
January 3, 2007 .- There is a 2.4 earthquake near Tenerife, felt in the towns of Granadilla Guimar.
January 5, 2007 .- There is an earthquake of 3.8 degrees in Granada, with its epicenter in Santa Fe
January 11, 2007 .- There is a 2.7 earthquake with its epicenter east of Elche (Alicante).
January 24, 2007 .- The registered an earthquake of 3.1 degrees in Belmonte (Cuenca).
February 3, 2007 .- The earthquake registered 2.5 degrees in Benasque (Huesca).
February 12, 2007 .- Earthquake of 6.1 magnitude on Richter scale with its epicenter in the sea, felt in almost the entire peninsula. Evictions caused buildings in Seville, Madrid and Salamanca, but caused no injuries, with epicenter at 200 kilometers from Cape San Vicente, had two replicates (2.8 and 3.1 magnitude). It was felt in Seville, Cadiz and Huelva, and with less intensity in Badajoz, Cordoba, Malaga, Albacete, Caceres, Ciudad Real, Granada, Guadalajara, Jaén, La Coruña, Madrid, Basque Country, Pontevedra, Salamanca, Teruel, Toledo, Valladolid , Zamora and Zaragoza.
February 22, 2007 .- There is an earthquake with epicenter in Casabermeja (Málaga) of 3.2 degrees felt "intensely" in Malaga. Previously there were two earthquakes of 1.5 and 1.6 degrees and Casabermeja Ardales (Málaga), and then another 1.5 degrees in Colmenar.
February 26, 2007 .- It detected a tremor of 2.8 degrees south of the province of Álava, with epicenter in Salt Añana (Alava).
March 11, 2007 .- There is a tremor of 2 degrees on the Richter scale felt in Molina de Segura and Fortuna (Murcia), which had its epicenter.
March 29, 2007 .- An earthquake of 3.1 magnitude on the Richter scale, woke residents from various regions of Girona, but there were no injuries or damage. The epicenter was in Torroella.
14 to 15 April 2007 .- There were two earthquakes of 1.6 and 2.2 degrees on the Richter scale with epicenter in the sea near Deia (Mallorca) and Ciutadella (Menorca). The first was felt in the resort is Caülls Marratxí (Deia), 40 kilometers from the epicenter. Citadel's earthquake was more intense, but none caused damage to property or persons.
April 20, 2007 .- An earthquake of 2.7 degrees, with its epicenter in the Romeral, startled neighbors Villacañas, Toledo and was especially Villacañas. There was no damage.
April 26, 2007 .- An earthquake of 2.6 on the Richter scale was recorded in Hondon de las Nieves (Alicante), without causing injury or property damage.
May 30, 2007 .- The earthquake registered 2.4 on the Richter scale with epicenter in the Malahá (Granada).
June 7, 2007 .- It is recorded an earthquake with epicenter in Shotgun (Guadalajara), intensity IV and with a magnitude of 4.1 on the European Macroseismic Scale (EMS). Is inti Guadalajara shotgun and capital, and registered an intensity of III, in the municipalities of Tielmes Madrid, San Martín de la Vega, Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Ciempozuelos and Estremera, and Alpedrete II and southeast of Madrid.
June 8, 2007 .- An earthquake of magnitude 1.9 on the Richter scale was recorded in the town Aoiz Navarra.
June 30, 2007 .- It is recorded an earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale, in Moron de la Frontera (Sevilla). No auso personal injury or material, but many locals took to the streets in the Sierra de Cádiz. With its epicenter located 10 kilometers from Morón de la Frontera, was felt in towns of Cadiz Zahara de la Sierra, Villamartin and cotton in the province of Malaga, Marbella mainly, and Huelva.
July 9, 2007 .- The National Geographic Institute detected an earthquake of 2.9 degrees, with its epicenter located in Abejuela (Teruel).
July 13, 2007 .- An earthquake of 3.2 magnitude on the Richter scale caused a slight tremor in the pond area of ​​Sant Maurici, Lleida in the region of Upper Ribagorça. Not cause any harm and was centered near Estany de Sant Maurici.
August 1, 2007 .- There is an earthquake of 2.7 magnitude on the Richter scale near Egiarreta (Navarra), 20 kilometers from Pamplona. It was felt with an intensity of grade 4 at the European level EMS Irurtzun (Navarra).
August 2, 2007 .- There was an earthquake of 2.9 magnitude on the Richter scale with its epicenter in Huelma Sales (Granada), with no reported damage or injury.
August 5, 2007 .- The earthquake registered 2.6 degrees on the Richter scale in Arcos de la Frontera (Cádiz), but did not cause personal injury or material. The epicenter was located southeast of Jerez de la Frontera.
.- 8 to 9 August 2007 an earthquake is recorded in Catalonia, with its epicenter in the region of Anoia, of 3.3 degrees on the Richter scale. Had two replicates of 2.3 degrees and the next day another 2.7 degrees, whose epicenter was 3 miles deep in El Bruc. It was felt in the districts of Anoia, and Piera, Hostalets of Pierola, Igualada, the Torre de Claramunt, and the Baix Llobregat and in some areas of the city and causing no damage, has alarmed many people, leading to collapse in Igualada emergency phones.
August 12, 2007 .- It shows a 5.1 degree earthquake centered in Ciudad Real, and 200 aftershocks, some three degrees and up to 3.7 degrees, which is noticed almost everywhere in the country, although mainly in the downtown area. Meaning in Ciudad Real, Badajoz, Cáceres, Madrid, Valencia, Alicante, Sevilla, Huelva, Asturias, Segovia, Avila, Salamanca, Zamora, Valladolid, Jaén and Córdoba, there was no material injury but, to be totally destroyed room conference of the Municipal Theatre of Almagro, nineteenth-century landmark building. The earthquake alarmed the citizens of Castilla-La Mancha and Madrid, the Emergency Service asked citizens not to call by the earthquake, except to communicate personal or property damage. The epicenter was in Pedro Muñoz (Ciudad Real). The latest aftershocks, with its epicenter northwest of Arenales de San Gregorio, took place on August 24 with the 3.1 degrees on the Richter scale of 5 seconds long felt by many residents and 25 September, there were other Replica of 2.7 degrees on the Richter scale with epicenter in Pedro Muñoz (Ciudad Real), and the Mercalli intensity III and other replica that was from the 3.7 to 2.7 degrees was felt but not in the population.
August 16, 2007 .- The quake registered a magnitude 3.3 on the Richter scale that was felt around Aguilar de Campo (Palencia), with its epicenter in Pomar de Valdivia.
August 29, 2007 .- The three earthquakes recorded in Navarre, which most of them magnitude 3.1 on the Richter scale with its epicenter located in Izalzu / Itzaltzu, although none was felt by the population and caused no damage.

Murcia, en la zona mas asismica de España
11/05/2011
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Murcia, in Spain seismic zoneThe director of the National Seismic Network said the quake caused damage because it was very superficialRAFAEL MENDEZ / RAQUEL SECO - Madrid - 11/05/2011
Murcia is in the most sensitive to earthquakes in Spain. During the afternoon of Wednesday wins in less than two hours, two quakes that have shaken with particular vehemence Lorca, but have also been felt in Cartagena, Aguilas, Mazarrón and its own provincial capital, Murcia. The director of the national seismic network of National Geographic Institute, Emilio Carreno, explained that the site is "short faults in an east-west and northeast-southwest."
At 17:05 there was a magnitude 4.5 earthquake in northeastern 18.47 Lorca and another earthquake of magnitude 5.1. Carreño explained that there has been damage because it was "very superficial." For an earthquake in that area is strong to overcome the earthquake magnitude is 6.5. According to Carreño, tremor felt in parts of Madrid Plaza de Castilla and the People of Vallecas, which are based on gypsum, land that amplify the shaking.
In the region of Murcia there are areas with higher risk by the presence in the field of active faults, according to the expert Ramón Aragón Rueda, head of the delegation of the Geological Survey of Spain in Murcia. In this case we find, for example, Guadalentín Valley, the Valley of Segura, Vega Alta and the southern city of Murcia, with Carrascoy and saw the rooster and the Mula basin. "The Spanish Southeast, which includes Granada, Almeria, Murcia and southern Alicante province is the most dangerous seismic zone in Spain," he explains.
How to predict an earthquake? "There is no temporal prediction. There are predictions space: you can know which areas are more likely to suffer an earthquake. But the temporal prediction can not be done anywhere in the world. Not even an approximate way," says Aragon.
"Today we still do not have the tools to know exactly when it will cause an earthquake, so he uses historical statistics," noted the president of the Association of Geologists of Spain, Luis Suarez, in the opinion of Murcia in March . Guided by these statistics, warned of the possibility of a destructive earthquake reached "soon, in the very distant future" because Spain recorded a major earthquake about every 70 years and the last was in 1884. Of course, the magnitude of that quake, which killed some 900 people, was between 6.5 and 6.7.
To earthquakes such as Lorca, Ramón Aragón conference stresses the importance of prevention: that buildings are constructed in accordance with the hazardous characteristics of the area. "In Japan, the magnitude 9 earthquake was an awesome release of energy, totally destructive. And because the buildings have been constructed in accordance with its rules, the quake caused little damage" compared to what could have happened.

Yel septimo dia, la campaña descanso
12/05/2011
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And on the seventh day, the campaign rested The election campaign was paralyzed in Madrid in solidarity with Murcia COUNTRY / EFE - Madrid - 12/05/2011
The seventh day of campaigning is not going to celebrate. The PP's electoral acts, PSM, IU and UPyD for regional and municipal authorities in the Community of Madrid scheduled for today have been suspended in solidarity with the victims of the earthquake that struck the town yesterday Lorca Murcia, have informed the various parties and candidates . The cancellation of campaign events takes place after last night the Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the PP leader, Mariano Rajoy, reached an agreement to suspend the campaign of its games for 24 hours throughout National Earthquake Lorca. They have been joined in the last hours the other parties.
The delegations of these parties in Madrid have said that the decision affects all acts that were scheduled for today in the community. The president and candidate for reelection, Esperanza Aguirre, thought go this afternoon Arganzuela districts and Usera Madrid before joining Moratalaz affiliates. Aguirre himself has been on the Governing Council, one of the last of the legislature, which was held at half past eleven not the Real Casa de Correos in the capital but in Alcobendas, reports J. Sérvulo González. With this, and the times are 19 members of the Regional Executive traveling to other parts of the community, a policy that aims to reach out to municipalities. In the press conference, Aguirre has lashed out against his Socialist rival, Thomas Gomez, who has been called a "trolero."
The mayor of Madrid and the PP candidate for reelection, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon, which would submit their proposals for Culture and thought to travel this afternoon to Seville to take part in an act of Andalusian PP, suspended even in interviews that he had its agenda, one in Telemadrid live early in the morning and one in TVE recorded yesterday. In solidarity with the eight people killed and hundreds of hurricane victims, the capital City Council has held five minutes of silence at noon in the Plaza de Cibeles. Some 200 locals have joined the event, which many candidates have gone well in the elections, including the first swords: Thomas Gomez, Jaime Lissavetzky and Angel Perez.
The socialist candidate for the Community of Madrid was scheduled to speak at nine in the morning at a breakfast briefing, meeting with mayors in Fuenlarada South region and close the day at Getafe with a meeting with the mayor of this town, Pedro Castro . Gomez has sent this morning her "deepest sympathy" and "affection" to the families of the deceased. Jaime Lissazvetzky, socialist candidate for mayor of Madrid, was to submit its proposals on the Environment in the House and in the afternoon was on schedule to meet with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender bookstore visit Berkana.
Both socialist candidates were to speak this afternoon at a major public event at a nightclub in the Gran Via UI aspiring to the presidency of the Community of Madrid, Gregory Gordon, planned to offer a press conference on employment in the morning Getafe and participates in a ceremony with Secretary General of CCOO de Madrid, Javier Lopez, and other trade unionists in Madrid this afternoon. Gordo has expressed its "solidarity with those affected by the earthquake" and said that "today is a day for mourning and to be with the victims and the families of the victims." The candidate for this training to the Mayor of Madrid, Angel Perez, was to explain their proposals to the city in terms of mobility and transport.
The earthquakes were felt in Murcia Community. The 112 Emergency Service received 45 calls from citizens who warned of the quake. The calls came mainly from the southern districts of the capital and towns of the south and east of the region. These neighbors spoke of moving lights, soil and even the building structures. There were no injuries or no damage.

Madrid envia expertos en edification y bomberos a Lorca para ayudar a las victimas
12/05/2011
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Madrid and building experts sent firefighters to Lorca to help victimsHundreds of Madrid observed five minutes of silence for those affected by the earthquake .- The regional government sent to the area of ​​hygiene and food kitsCOUNTRY - Madrid - 12/05/2011
The Madrid today expressed solidarity with the approximately 20,000 victims of the earthquake that struck yesterday afternoon the Murcia town of Lorca, and both the regional government and the municipality of the capital have sent firefighters and building experts to help the victims in the earthquake that has killed nine people.
The mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon, has announced that the city has offered its equipment for emergency rescue and all the necessary work at first, "as well as sending 20 experts who are already poor building Lorca. "These technicians can help provide some security and thus reduce the uncertainty that currently are spending their inhabitants." The team, led by the director general of the municipal Building Conservation and Poor, Norberto Rodriguez, is made up of architects, quantity surveyors and consolidations and demolition specialists. This unit intervened and, among other claims, in the Windsor building fire.
"All means for the Community"
The Council already made available yesterday to Civil Protection to the 15 people in the rubble and Rescue Service's fire department, which includes two vehicles equipped with specific tools and transport of debris shoring. The regional president, Esperanza Aguirre, who today met with the Governing Council in Alcobendas, has also offered "all means for the Community of Madrid to help in what may need." This results in sending three teams of ERICAM (Emergency Unit and Immediate Response Firefighters Community) to help detect possible structural damage and facilitate, where appropriate, the return of their neighbors. Thirteen firefighters who make up the three teams left for Lorca in the early afternoon.
ERICAM Unit participated in the rescue efforts following earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. Fuefundada in 2006 with the intention to organize and send a disaster team of professionals in less than three hours. A Lorca have also reached 22 tents and hygiene kits with food for 450 people, lighting, Self heating drink and beds and blankets, as reported by the Community.
In addition, the capital and several municipalities, as Alcobendas, were saved by noon five minutes of silence in remembrance of the victims. The mayor of Madrid, the secretary general of the Socialists in Madrid, Tomas Gomez and candidates for mayor of PSM and UI, Jaime Lissavetzky and Angel Perez have put aside the campaign was suspended in the region as in all Spain in mourning, and have turned the act of homage, convened by the City. Gallardón has indicated that these five minutes of silence wanted to show symbolically that which unites all that is "solidarity with the families of those killed in Lorca, with the entire population is going on very hard times and with the Region of Murcia" .
Almost all members of the Municipal Government as Deputy Mayor of the capital, Manuel Cobo, the second deputy mayor, Ana Botella, and the majority of councilors socialist and left-wing coalition, have also participated in the ceremony also have Madrid added two hundred. On behalf of the Socialists in Madrid, Gomez expressed his condolences, his "deepest condolences" and solidarity with the people of Lorca, are the deceased and their families. For his part, Angel Perez has stated that there must be clear that "there are things that are above politics" as the pain of the citizens of the town of Murcia. On the other hand, Atletico Madrid has offered to play a friendly match against Real Murcia at the Nueva Condomina stadium, with proceeds going to victims of the earthquake.

El terremoto de Lorca causa la "mayor catastorfe" patrimonial en Europa en los ultomos años
12/05/2011
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Lorca's earthquake caused the "biggest catastrophe equity in Europe in recent years The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, assessing damage in the city of Murcia J. FERNANDO PEREZ / AGENCIES | Lorca 12/05/2011
Lorca has woken up today with a bleak picture. The quake left between yesterday and today nine people dead, thousands of people sleeping outside their houses, and 24 hours later, it has begun to assess the damage of the tragedy in the city of Murcia. The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, described the disaster caused by the earthquake in the historic buildings as "the greatest heritage disaster occurred in Europe in recent years" and, among other damage, caused the collapse and displacement of part of the Castle.
José Martínez, a geologist at the University Complutense of Madrid, with two of his colleagues inspected the damage to the Church of San Patricio, the eighteenth century, some of whose pinnacles and limestone capitals collapsed in the earthquake. Martinez explained that the fact that the major damage to buildings have occurred in the lower floors suggests that "the earthquake occurred at a very superficial level" of the crust, generating "very short waves ". These two factors tend to cause "great suffering" on the property, has been clarified.
Martinez, a descendant of Lorca - "in my parents' house in the heart of Directors [about seven miles east of downtown], sank the porch and I have loads of cracks," said-he wrote his doctoral thesis precisely on the fault that caused the earthquake. "The fault is about 100 kilometers long and runs roughly from Murcia, Alhama through, Totana and Lorca, to Puerto Lumbreras" -. The fault passes just below the Plaza of Spain, in the center of the city. "The movement of a small piece of failure about four kilometers from the earthquake has generated Lorca."
Culura advisor has detailed the damage detected by technical architects and public and private, and announced a series of urgent measures of performance, which include the indefinite closure of all the historic parishes of the municipality and the cessation of worship within them. As reported, the material goods that are in listed buildings of cultural interest as well just have been damaged, except some parts of the archaeological museum, "though those seen in the buildings are" catastrophic. "
In one of the most emblematic buildings in the city, the Lorca Castle, built between the ninth and fifteenth centuries, the Tower of Ram "has split and moved from its original position." In addition, the third of the height of this medieval fortress is crumbling, so much of your profile "disappeared."
There are also significant damage to the church of San Clemente and the Convent of the Virgen de Las Huertas, two of the most outstanding architectural heritage Lorca. Structural damage in nearly all parishes, some of them almost in ruins and have a look "military", as described by the director.
Technical teams have also produced a diagnosis in some villages near Lorca and Aguilas, Puerto Lumbreras and Alhama de Murcia, without detecting any significant damage to protected buildings.
Three measures of urgent action
Next to the indefinite closure of parishes, which are in a "dangerous indeed", the Regional Administration, in collaboration with the municipality and the Ministry of Culture, has launched three other urgent measures of performance.
The first of these measures was the removal of material goods that keep the historic buildings that are in good condition in general.
Also being carried out in collaboration with private companies shoring of buildings, an operation that has already been completed in the churches of El Carmen, San Mateo and El Rosario.
Finally, it is becoming an "exhaustive" pictorial documentation of all places visited by the experts, if necessary, reintegrate their architectural or pictorial. "Unfortunately, they have been down twenty years of Lorca estate recovery, but we will recover thanks to the absolute cooperation of the three administrations," he assured Cruz.
For its part, the general manager of Fine Arts of the Ministry of Culture, Maria Angeles Albert, has stressed the need to recover all this heritage through interventions "well planned" because, in his view, constitute "the historical legacy and the future of many people. "
The geologist José Martinez, who has been carbon dated 14 other earthquakes, even prehistoric, this area has also warned that the quake last Wednesday "is not the largest that have occurred." Among the most destructive earthquakes, Martinez highlights of 1674, which destroyed 30% of village houses. Earlier in the fifteenth century swept 70% of homes. The strongest earthquakes detected in the area may exceed six points on the Richter scale.
One of the factors that together with the shallowness of the epicenter and short wave periods, explain the destructive earthquake of Lorca is the fact that part of town is located in an area of ​​alluvial deposits, a field that amplifies signal waves.

 
Mas de la mitad de los edificios evaluados nopueden ser ocupados todavia
12/05/2011
More than half of the buildings evaluated can not be occupied yet With 40% of all buildings Lorca analyzed by technicians, 17% are in "red" (can not enter) and 39% in yellow (just to pick up belongings) .- The death toll rises nine after the death of a woman very serious wound .- "80% of people can return to their homes today," said the general director of emergency Murcia .- The Army installs three large camps to house the homeless COUNTRY | Lorca | Murcia 12/05/2011
The death toll from two earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 and 5.1 shook yesterday Lorca (Murcia) has risen to nine, following the death today of one of the three injured people were very serious, a woman aged 41 , as confirmed by the Minister of Health, María Angeles Palacios. Moreover, according to Hall, a person is still missing, though the Ministry itself does not confirm the figure.
The two earthquakes reported yesterday have damaged much of the town buildings and figures on the percentage of properties adeteriorados have danced throughout the day. In the morning the President of the Region, Ramón Luis Valcárcel (PP), claimed that 80% of homes were affected. Hours later, the mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar (PP), specified that 90% of households "has no structural damage."
The most reliable data have been reported in the afternoon. With 40% of the buildings evaluated by technical Lorca (542 buildings), 44% would be green code, ie no structural damage, 39%, yellow code, allowing access only to collect appliances, while 17% is code red, has problems and prohibits its passage, "which does not mean you have to shoot them down," reported the Minister of Public Works and Planning, José Ballesta.
Shortly thereafter, the Minister of Justice and Security Murcia, Manuel Campos, Efe said that estimates indicate that 90% of the buildings have no structural damage. In any event, the general director of Emergency Murcia, Luis Gestoso, "80% of the inhabitants of Lorca can return to their homes today."
Valcárcel has asked Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba vice president, the implementation of a plan, coordinated by the three administrations, taking into account both the affected and the consequences of earthquakes will have on the local economy. Rubalcaba has moved to the town with Defence Minister, Carme Chacon, to continue the rescue and relief operations.
In the Vine neighborhood, one of the most damaged, local architects reviewed the buildings one by one, accompanied by members of the Military Emergency Unit (UME), reports Manuel Altozano. After checking the damage, identified in the doors with stickers in black, red, yellow or green to indicate whether or not you can access them. The black and red indicate that there is structural damage and can not enter, yellow has not been able to determine the extent of the damage, and green to indicate that this can happen. The area is full of fire trucks and the EMU, as well as excavators, which remove the debris.
For his part, Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, said this morning that the Executive will not "bargain any economic environment for the task of rebuilding the city" which has been damaged "substantial" and " serious impact. "
One night outside
Indeed, after a meeting between the executive leader with its three vice presidents and the minister of development, the Government has announced that on Friday approved direct aid, tax exemptions and a credit line of 25 million to help hundreds of people still do not know where they will spend tonight.
Around five in the afternoon yesterday, most of the inhabitants of the city (92,000 inhabitants) took to the streets in panic and did not return to their homes. Some 10,000 people were evicted from their homes. The neighbors come and go in search of open fields to the possibility of further aftershocks was constant. And they were not misled, because the ground trembled again thirty times last night.
After this long night, the mayor has said in comments reported by Efe that discards "completely" that no one will be cold sleeping in the open. "No way," he asserted. "The stay at hotels, lodges and tented camps."
Three days of mourning
The City Council and the Government of Murcia has declared three days of official mourning. "Lorca seems to Beirut, with everything on the floor and huge cracks on the walls," said the mayor, who has announced that it will install a chapel with all the victims whose families so wish. "The feeling is like waking from a nightmare after a long night, with all the neighbors in the street."
The funeral for the deceased will be held this Friday at the fairgrounds in Santa Quiteria at eleven o'clock, and will be officiated by the Bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena, José Manuel Lorca Planes.
Today, secondary schools will remain closed until it is verified that the buildings have suffered structural damage. The Town Planning, Francisco Garcia, was summoned to the architects in the morning to organize the first tasks of analysis. After the mayor announced that "we are working" the first crews to assess damage to infrastructure, that have moved to the town from different parts of Spain.
Nine dead, 293 injured
At night, the Health Service of Murcia had treated 260 people wounded, according to a statement from the Government of Murcia, but later the Ministry of Health has increased the balance of wounded at 293.
The head of the department has announced the death, around noon, one of the three most seriously injured, a 41 year old woman who was in the ICU of the hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca of Murcia, where they were admitted.
The other two are a child of 3 years, admitted in the pediatric ICU, and another woman of 36, admitted to the intensive care unit, which was seized last night. Both, along with a 73 year old woman who has entered the last hours in the ICU with acute coronary syndrome, are still in serious condition, but developing well, according to Health.
The rest of the wounded, of varying degrees, have been treated by emergency units in hospitals accredited in Lorca and those who registered more serious, a total of 30, were taken to different hospitals in the region, since the Hospital Rafael Mendez is evicted.
Eight people, including two pregnant women and a teenager died yesterday after suffering most from falling debris in the street. One of them still unidentified, according to the mayor of the town.
Suburban Standard
Slowly begin to restore communications. Commuter service line C-2 between the stations of Lorca and Murcia has been normalized. Has resumed after 6.45, as reported by Renfe in a statement. More than 4,000 passengers travel daily on trains near the C-2 among all stations in both towns. The line remained cut from eight thirty in the afternoon yesterday.
The RM-701 regional road and still cut the A-7 has enabled a rail alternative to ensure good circulation, at the height of the tunnel of Lorca, reports the DGT. That stretch closed to traffic continues to review the structural damage, since there have been some landslides. Yesterday the Ministry of Development said in a statement that the network infrastructure of the state in Murcia had not suffered major damage and that neither the community nor ports Airport Murcia-San Javier had been affected by the earthquake.
Temporary camps
In the fairgrounds in the city, the Huerta de la Rueda, Lorca have waited thousands of dawn covered with blankets. He was one of the 10 points of the city in which citizens gathered unable or unwilling to return home. They settled the bulk of the temporary camps. Tents were erected to accommodate 10,000 people. Also in this area was installed the official command to continue the rescue and relief to those affected, and who have visited this morning Rubalcaba, Chacon and the PP leader, Mariano Rajoy. These tents were occupied primarily by immigrants (Lorca has an important colony of foreigners, mostly North Africans and South Americans). These groups had no alternative lodges or families in neighboring towns, to spend the night as the native population. This was the case of Carmen, an Ecuadorian, 39, who with her four and a baby expected in Europe Avenue wax installation of tents. "We have assembled here the stores so we can spend the night", commented: "It was terrible. I was at home and suddenly everything started to move and crack the walls."
Next to Carmen was the young married couple, Juan Antonio and Maria, who along with his five year old daughter and a baby. Waiting for their family to go to spend the night in the nearby town of Mula. "We're going to Mula with my mother. We have been told we can not return to the floor and it does not leave us out of the garage," said Juan Antonio. "It was a daunting experience. All of a sudden started moving the furniture and break the walls. A could barely get off the street by the stairway, which also began to crack," added his wife, Mary.
The mayor of Totana (Murcia) reports "minor damage" in the town
The earthquake that struck yesterday has caused minor damage also elsewhere muriciana, Totana, according to realize today the mayor, José Martínez Andreo, who has stated that a school has had to be sealed until Monday.
After the events, Andreo and Councilwoman Martinez Planning and Sustainable Development, María José Bedia, have made an assessment of the actions and developments in Totana after visiting, along with architects and municipal technicians, all buildings municipal and architectural schools.
As reported by the Consistory, the buildings have minor damage such as cracks or tears. Specifically, the school has been sealed Santa Eulalia to fix as quickly as the damage that occurred within several classrooms, while another three have been closed at the Colegio de La Cruz.
The mayor has indicated that it also has visited the damages that have occurred in the Colegio de La Milagrosa, who has had a landslide in the main tower of the church, at the residence La Purisima, at Colegio San José, in the Glen Street homes Zamora and Sociocultural Center Jail.

Los seguros calculan inicialmente que los daños en Lorca ascienden a 70 millions de euros
15/05/2011
Insurance initially calculated Lorca damage amounting to 70 million euros Economy Minister, Elena Salgado, has visited the area and warned that an estimate is "very early", which depend on the cases processed and the assessment is made 'in situ' in each case AGENCIES | Lorca 15/05/2011
The first assessment of damage by earthquakes in Lorca has made the Insurance Compensation Consortium is in the environment of 65 to 70 million euros, as indicated today that the Treasury minister, Elena Salgado. Speaking to reporters upon arrival in Lorca, Salgado has clarified that this is a calculation "very early", which depend at the end of the cases processed and the assessment is made "in situ" in each case.
He added that the president of the Consortium shall need to extend the deadline for victims to deal with reclamacones, which can also occur in each of the individual insurers. The minister reiterated the government's solidarity and "not going to spare no effort" to Lorca "back to what it was, with all its artistic heritage, historic," with housing for all citizens "and an activity as it was before the earthquake.
Salgado visit the operations and coordination centers set up to deal with the consequences of earthquakes, will tour some of the damaged sites and meet with economic and social agents in the area.

 Lorca trata de volver a la normalidad con la apertura de los colegios
16/05/2011
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Lorca is back to normal with the opening of schools Citizens are long lines to apply for government support .- gas is restored buildings out of danger of collapse EFE - Lorca - 16/05/2011
It has been five nights since two earthquakes killed nine people and causing extensive damage, and the town of Lorca Murcia is gradually recovering much of the activity of each day. Today, some shops have reopened and most of the schools. According to forecasts by the Ministry of Education, Training and Employment, 23 schools have resumed classes today, attended by 6,682 students. Have opened cafes, banks, insurance companies, property managers, pharmacies and supermarkets.
It has also been restored, in part, the gas supply in buildings that pose no risk of collapse. In addition, municipal and regional authorities have again urged the public to immediately staying buildings were fit and repair themselves as necessary in those buildings without structural damage, to be busy again soon. Of course, keeping bills arrangements so that they are paid at the time by government.
But it is a partial return to normality. There are still many children who can not return to school because their schools, six infant and primary and three secondary schools, remain closed, some with severe structural damage. In the center of the city crews are busy debris removal and hanging of facades that can be precipitated to the street, although the overall image of the city is more noise than yesterday.
The local hospital, the Rafael Mendez, has reopened this morning but only running part of his premises by the extensive damage caused by earthquakes. Sources of hospital management indicated that the building has no structural damage, although there is rubble, ceilings have been shed and blue plates. According to plan, this week may work a hundred percent all of its dependencies.
Currently there are no inpatient and outpatient visits are not working today, except for those who care for pregnant women. The service operates from admitting patients on Friday, and consultations be opened up gradually. Are operating the emergency services, day hospital, laboratories, operating rooms, and prenatal service delivery of anticoagulant treatment.
Today we continue the attention of some 4,000 victims in the three camps set up by the Military Emergency Unit (UME) and other areas of the city where homeless people have come together spontaneously. Technicians from the City Council, in collaboration with Red Cross and Civil Protection, will verify, one by one, the identity, origin and personal situation of the campers in the Garden of the wheel, so you get people who really need assistance.
In addition, hundreds of citizens affected by the ravages of the earthquake are queues at the Plaza of Spain, opposite the City of Lorca, to request assistance from the Government, which quantified the damage yesterday, which was yesterday in Lorca. The City Council is planning to increase citizens' information points around the city to 50 or 60.

 Chacon: "Queda mucho por hacer en Lorca"
14/05/2011
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Chacón: "There is plenty to do in Lorca" The City Council declared habitable 60% of buildings in the village, after reviewing 100% of homes AGENCIES / COUNTRY - Lorca - 14/05/2011
The Defence Minister, Carme Chacón, said today that "much remains to be done" in this town who lived in Murcia on Wednesday May 11 5.1 magnitude earthquake that left nine people dead. Chacón was speaking after meeting at the headquarters of the Military Emergency Unit (UME) with JEMAD and the head of the EMU, Lt. Gen. José Emilio Roldán, while maintaining a videoconference with some members of the device this unit are in Lorca.
While the Army is working on the work of clearance and assistance to victims, the city of Lorca has issued the final figures after reviewing 100% of the buildings of the municipality. The revised total number of buildings are 4,100, of which 2,460 buildings (60% of total) from the town, most homes have been declared inhabitable. Still, much of the population remains outside their homes for fear of aftershocks and landslides, reports Oscar Sanz.
A total of 26 teams of architects and quantity surveyors have inspected the city in 48 hours, marking colors (green, yellow, red and black) housing in terms of habitability. About 490 buildings have been marked in red or black, so that you can enter them in any case. Finally, 1,150 buildings, marked with yellow, require repair before they can be occupied again, and only allowed access momentarily.
After the first inspection, tomorrow starts the second. The goal now is that the greatest number of buildings listed as Yellow ascend to the level green.
The City has reported also the formation of a committee working with the local confederation of employers to consider temporary relocations empty houses that manage the construction and real estate, depending on the services and furniture with these houses. These measures will add to those adopted yesterday at the Council of Ministers which took effect today, designed to distribute aid to the families of those killed and and people with total and permanent disability. Moreover, in this Decree are also grants for rental housing and reconstruction of houses have been destroyed or damaged.
For the implementation of these measures has created an interministerial committee, coordinated by the Directorate General of Civil Defense and Emergencies, and included representatives of nine ministries and the Government Delegate in Murcia and a representative of the Compensation Consortium Insurance.
In fact, the experts of the public body will begin today to work with those affected by the earthquake in order to make the expert reports early next week and begin payments simpler records "within days", as noted by Alexander Izuzquiza, director of Operations of the Insurance Compensation Consortium, adding that will not require compliance "strictly" within 7 days provided the Insurance Contract Act to report the damage, the question of "circumstances special. "
Lorca City Council has posted on its website the information of the Consortium of Insurance Compensation on the conditions for receiving aid.
In addition, the Decree provides for the granting of aid to local authorities for emergency expenses incurred to protect the lives and safety of persons and the functioning of essential public services are financed the repair or restoration of infrastructure, equipment or facilities for essential services. Also included tax benefits such as exemptions on real estate tax and reductions in business tax.
Exceptionally, it is anticipated the day June 1, 2011 the payment of the bonus for the period December 2010 to May 2011, Lorca's pensioners. It also sets up a credit line in the Official Credit Institute for repair or replacement of facilities and equipment, commercial, agricultural, forestry, livestock and irrigation, and private vehicles or commercial.
30 aftershocks of low intensity
In last night was a new replica of the earthquake was of magnitude but low (2.4), a movement that has barely been perceived by the public. Since last Wednesday, when there was an earthquake of 5.1 degrees, have occurred in and near Lorca thirty replicas, the majority of low intensity. Only one of them has exceeded the size 3. In the main camp, enabled the city to the thousands of people still can not return to their homes, this small movement has gone virtually unnoticed.
Some people claimed to have felt inside their homes, why we have decided to leave and return to the camping area, a large square where they feel safer and have large tents set up by Red Cross and the Military Unit emergency (UME).
Noting that the main objective is early restoration of normalcy in the town of Murcia, Chacon has highlighted the coordination between the three government-Hall, Autonomous Region and central Government, and between the EMU and the rest of the Security Forces State. The minister, who commented that the first earthquake that attends EMU in Spain, has insisted that the coordination of this unit with the other forces being "indispensable" for the return to normal.
The owner has stated that defense right now are in the area more than 600 troops and nearly 200 vehicles of the EMU and the army and added that they would send more if necessary, although he pointed out that at present "no it seems. "
El Gobierno anuncia una revision de la normativa de construccion tras el terremoto de Lorca
13/05/2011
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The Government announced a review of building regulations after an earthquake in Lorca "The earthquake has been tough, strong, has had an impact, but this country is stronger," said Zapatero from the city of Murcia .- The decree law approved by the Executive includes support for the rehabilitation of the cultural heritage of the town COUNTRY - Madrid - 13/05/2011
The Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has appeared before reporters at the fairgrounds where he has officiated at the funeral set for four of the nine who died in the earthquake, with the President of the Region of Murcia, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, the Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, and Development Minister, José Blanco, after touring the damaged neighborhood, La Viña. The Chief Executive has shelled the package of measures agreed by the Council of Ministers and announced that White intends to sign the agreement for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of homes in Lorca on Tuesday. The president detailed that it is a decree-law "broad" support to families, businesses and the rehabilitation and reconstruction of housing and institutional buildings, which estrará into force today. "The earthquake has been tough, strong, has had an impact, but is stronger this country, its commitment to solidarity and reconstruction," said Zapatero, who has emphasized that "unity, coordination, will, quickly and with media" will ensure that Lorca "back to normal soon."
The Prime Minister has conveyed his condolences for the victims and has launched an undertaking to closeness and support, both Lorca and the Region of Murcia, in Spain, "united in grief" in solidarity. We also wanted to commend the work of the regional government and the City, they've done what has been in his hands "and the central government, he explained, which has sought to tip at a time of difficulty and concern. Finally, he highlighted the unity of all government action as "exemplary" and is committed to normality will be resumed as soon as possible, enabling temporary housing and reconstruction of the damaged medium term, and the restoration of buildings institutional and historical and artistic heritage.
Regulatory review
Specifically, the Government announced in the Council of Ministers for a review of earthquake resistant building regulations. "After an earthquake like Lorca," said Vice President Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, "with nine deaths and tens of thousands of people on the street, it makes sense to review the rules, construction protocols. No serious country would stop magazines all this. " The Executive also approved on Friday a Royal Decree adopting the "urgent measures" to remedy the "substantial" damage caused by earthquakes.
Rubalcaba also reported that the Government has included in the decree law Lorca extraordinary aid the rehabilitation of cultural heritage. The Chief Executive is also committed to rehabilitating public buildings, growing infrastructure and public housing.
Rubalcaba has said after the Council of Ministers, officials of the Ministry of Culture yesterday in Lorca are assessing the damage caused to the cultural and historical heritage of the locality. Rubalcaba explained that Culture has prepared a preliminary report and in the decree law has introduced a heading, to be entered by the Community of Murcia and the town of Lorca, to advance the rehabilitation of the cultural heritage of the town, reports Servimedia.
Also the Ministry of Industry has realized the damage that is the Parador de Lorca, whose works in progress have been affected. The Ministry of Education has been in contact with the Ministry of Education Murcia to agree measures to allow the earliest possible rehabilitation of schools affected.
Measures of Legislative Decree
Among the measures approved today in the Legislative Decree no aid to individuals in cases of death or total and permanent disability. 18,000 euros will be awarded to the spouse of the deceased or person with a similar relationship to the minor children and the adult children who are financially dependent on the deceased. Be given the same amount in the event of total and permanent disability, being the beneficiary of the aid the person found in that situation.
Have also been approved for aid to private housing rentals. When the residence has been totally destroyed or due to poor condition would have been, has been precisely its demolition, their occupants, if they own, they will fund the rental of a dwelling and, if they were rented , they pay the difference between the old and the new rent.
Also, in case the stricken housing repair requires their evacuation, also funded rent for, whether they own or whether they are tenants. The ceiling for grants for rent was set at 6671.70 per year.
Funding for these grants shall be the Ministry of the Interior, through the Directorate General of Civil Defense and Emergencies, which will pay 50% of aid to individuals for rents, the remaining 50% shall, where appropriate, to other government involved, according to the agreements they reach.
Include tax benefits such as exemptions in the Property Tax in homes, workplaces and the like, affected, or reductions in business tax to industries and commercial establishments.
Businesses and self-employed will get a one-year moratorium on the payment of Social Security payments, for the three calendar months immediately preceding the production of the earthquake.
Exceptionally, it is anticipated the day June 1, 2011 the payment of the bonus for the period December 2010 to May 2011, to pensioners of the Social Security system in their arrangements contributory and non-resident tax the town of Lorca.
"Los dos niños estaban debajo de su madre muerta, no paraban de chillar"
13/05/2011
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Deadly Earthquake in Murcia "The two children were under their dead mother, did not stop screaming" A woman with the body to protect their children, rescued by neighbors and police MANUEL Altozano - Lorca - 13/05/2011
Jose Luis Amador was lucky. The second quake, magnitude 5.2, which Lorca plunged into chaos on Wednesday caught this truck on the roof of his house, the street number 2 of the Infante Don Juan Manuel, in the neighborhood of La Viña, a of those most affected. The building, just after the earthquake, "was staggering," he recalls. "I had a split second to think. I jumped from the roof terrace of a contiguous block. That was how I managed to save me." Behind him he saw the whole building was coming down "like an accordion." The roof above the second, and this over the first. Down in the street, a woman aged about 30 died under the rubble as she walked with her two children. Gotta save small covering them with his own body.
Just then, panic-stricken, José Manuel Lorca and his son were clinging to a door frame of his house at workshops, trying to follow the basic safety rules before a quake. When the ground stopped shaking took to the streets for safety. On leaving the site, just to the right, 50 meters was the building collapsed in the street Infante Don Juan Manuel. "You could hear the cries of children, so I did not think and I set out to find them." He and four other neighbors in that same block a small improvised rescue device which is then joined by four local police. They made a human chain and began to lift debris.
The landscape was bleak. The head of the woman, the only visible part of your body with the naked eye, peered through the rubble. "It would take about 15 minutes to remove, though, the truth, it was a moment so intense that I remember the time, could take much longer." José Manuel explains that quickly realized that they could not do anything. "He had died on the spot, for sure, because when we remove the womb was torn, bloodied. As there was nothing to do, we think assist other victims, but we quickly realized that children were just below. No stopped screaming. " So I went ahead, took his body and covered it with one of the curtains of the house. Lay on the sidewalk.
A few more and found debris the first child, about three years. "He was conscious, crying, with a strong gap in the head and cuts on his feet, but it was good." A little further down was the second, which only had a hit in the head. By then, two ambulances had reached the place. "Shout for joy to find them. Not every day that he saves two children from certain death," José Manuel.
But the work of the local emergency rescue team had not yet finished. At the top of the collapsed building were three other neighbors. It was an older couple with a dependent child, aged about 30. "They were saved because they lived on the top floor. Above them had fallen much less debris. Just had up a few blocks of cement and plaster boards," says José Manuel, who has that got out of his own accord.
Yesterday, the residents could not approach the building to try to salvage some belongings. Local Police cordoned off the access while the soldiers of the Military Emergency Unit tried to clear the street, covered with blocks of brick and plaster. Several Army bulldozers were picked up and carried on trucks to the expectation of residents and hundreds of curious glances.
The damage, according to Jose Luis Amador, the neighbor who managed to jump through the roof, could have been much higher. The building, two stories high and low, with 15 homes, was nearly empty. "Most people had left after the first earthquake," says the trucker. "If not, we would be talking about a catastrophe." José Luis, who has moved to live with his parents at a cottage, now wonders how a building so low and built nine years ago is just one of the neighborhood that has collapsed. "You just have to see what is left of the house: cement, sand, bricks multipurpose 10 centimeters wide." "We have to thank you very much to the builder, 'says the driver. "Give him many awards for his work." After turning on a local policeman. "But we'll see, when we can spend noses?".

 "Nuestro edificio ha matado a dos personas"
13/05>/2011
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Feature: Deadly Earthquake in Murcia "Our building has killed two people" The earthquake was primed with three neighborhoods J. FERNANDO PEREZ - Lorca - 13/05/2011
The Plaza of Spain in Lorca, a beautiful baroque rectangle chaired by the City and the Collegiate Church of St. Patrick, became yesterday afternoon in the heart of the city and meeting point for residents who live at ground zero the earthquake, a triangle, or rather an axis, the imaginary whose extremes are the districts of La Viña, San Cristobal and San Diego, and over which are the worst damage. By late afternoon, about 200 residents stood in line at a tent authorized by the City so that residents do contain the damage to their homes.
Northeast of the plaza, around the Avenue of Europe, are the neighborhoods of San Cristobal and San Diego, severely hit by the tragedy. "Our building has killed two people," John Oliver told by telephone, 68, a friend of his son. The railing of the ledge of his building, on the streets of Navarre, was off by two of its three sides by the second quake. The debris fell on the hospitality Juana Canales and a still unidentified man. Both died instantly. With a serenity Trappist, Oliver, who agreed to his home to pick an umbrella that had to jump over a car to avoid the ledge, while his son Dominic, 41, saved his life by thousandths, and he came to the portal before the collapse. The entire family and neighbors spent the night at the child in a nearby hamlet. The drying prevented the rest of the canvas ledge to rush onto the sidewalk, killing more people.
Norma Isabel Grande, Ecuador, her husband and three children, 15, 13 and two years living in the same street, had to spend the night in his Opel Elegant. "The earthquake was like a bomb. We got everyone under the table." The eldest daughter, Maria Celeste, suffered scratches on his leg.
About three miles southwest of the Plaza Mayor of Lorca is the Vine neighborhood. As the traveler approaches this area, populated mostly by immigrants Ecuadorians and Moroccans, the damage is becoming more evident. First, the vane twisted in the parish of San Francisco, later, the Carmelite church that dispossessed the presiding angel, more and more rubble on the floor ... At the junction of the road from Granada and the street of the Infante Don Juan Manuel, where a woman was crushed to death, dozens of neighbors stood at the last minute without the courage to return home. Surely they will spend their second night in white.
Los afectados tendran ayudas al alquiler y beneficios fiscales
13/05/2011
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Deadly Earthquake in Murcia Those affected will rent subsidies and tax benefits Rubalcaba describes the damage of "substantial" L. R. AIZPEOLEA - Madrid - 13/05/2011
Yesterday the government avoided making an economic assessment of damage caused by the earthquake of Lorca whose most serious were the nine people died and nearly three hundred wounded. Highlighted, then the number of homes destroyed and damaged the vice president, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, said that the damage was "substantial", which is "very difficult to predict" how long will it take to recover normal life in the town of Murcia and the executive will "accelerate" the implementation of measures to minimize that time. Announced that Vice President Technical Insurance Compensation Consortium under the Ministry of Finance, were already conducting an assessment in Lorca.
That was the assessment of government spokesman following the meeting held by the top executive in La Moncloa, headed by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and in which forward the broad outlines of Lorca decree to approve aid for the Council meeting Ministers today.
Among the most important steps forward yesterday Pérez Rubalcaba include grants for individuals and families who have been victims of the earthquake in the amount of 18,000 euros. Also be extended from 12 to 24 months to aid people who have lost their homes.
Another major package of aid measures affecting the rehabilitation of damaged houses. Also, pensioners will advance in a month extra pay and affected farms have a preferential credit worth ICO 25 million.
The tax benefits to help businesses and individuals, also were addressed and extend the IBI, the IAE (business tax), as well as enrollment rates in the case of those affected are forced to buy a new vehicle. There will be moratorium on Social Security contributions.
The vice president announced that the aid is channeled through an agreement between the three authorities-central, regional and local, which concluded yesterday with the President of Murcia, Ramón Luis Valcárcel. Government spokesman announced that the people of Lorca who can not return to their homes will have 3,500 beds, which could be extended to 1,500 more if needed.
Rubalcaba guaranteed the thesis advanced by the experts about the serious consequences of the earthquake. "The earthquake was very shallow nature of the soil and amplified their effect," said the vice president, who was in favor of revising the regulations. 

El temblor deja la mitad de los edificios inhabitables
13/05/2011
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Deadly Earthquake in Murcia The quake left half of the buildings uninhabitable Damage in 17% of the buildings are very serious - The ninth victim died in hospital earthquake - 4,000 beds Defense enables stores to avoid another night in the open MANUEL Altozano - Lorca - 13/05/2011
After a cold night and full of hardships that thousands of citizens of Lorca spent in the open, yesterday became the first balance of damages. Dozens of architects reviewed individually properties damaged the historic center and concluded that 17% of the 524 buildings evaluated have irreparable damage to its structure, which may intervene in the demolition. To this figure must be added 38% harmed less important but preventing immediate occupancy. This means that thousands of people were left homeless, at least for now. Half of the buildings could not live yesterday. Although Lorca City Council on Wednesday urged residents not to return to their homes in the risk of aftershocks and crashes, yesterday it encouraged those who still have their housing conditions. For the rest, are three camps were authorized by the Emergency Military Union and the Red Cross, with beds for 4,000 people, according to defense sources.
During the day, technicians analyzed 44% of the overall park homes in the city, according to the Minister of Public Works Murcia, José Ballesta. Their findings indicate that only 44% are capable of relocation without any type of work. In total, the buildings most damaged of all those examined yesterday are 92.
In the eight victims of Wednesday, yesterday joined a new death. It is Montiel María Dolores Sánchez, 41. After getting hurt, was taken to hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca of Murcia, where he died. The other dead were Antonia Sanchez, who died in the collapse of a building in Calle Infante Juan Manuel, the Barrio de La Viña, Juan Canales (50), on which was rained a shower of debris when leaving a hair salon in the street Galicia neighborhood of San Diego; Emilia Moreno (22 years and eight months pregnant), on which a wall collapsed in the districts, the shoe entrepreneur Rafael Mateos (50), Juan Salinas, Domingo Garcia and Pedro José Rubio, as Emergency sources of Murcia. The boy Raul Guerrero, 13, died at the gates of her grandfather's bar in the neighborhood of La Viña, buried under a ledge.
The Bishop of Cartagena officiate today at 11 a funeral for them. The event was attended by the Princes of Asturias and the Prime Minister. The two earthquakes of magnitude 4.4 and 5.2, caused further until yesterday afternoon, 293 wounded, of which 41 remain hospitalized and three of them were serious. Some 9,000 displaced people, many of them immigrants, they hoped that the authorities allow them to return home.
Early in the morning, the vice president and interior minister, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba and Defense Minister, Carme Chacón, visited the advanced checkpoint located in the Garden of the Wheel, the site enabled by Emergency Civil Protection Red Cross and the EMU to assist the thousands of Lorca who left their homes for fear of further landslides. Both members of the executive have first-hand field hospitals deployed in the place and the appalling conditions in which thousands of people had spent the night. He also visited this place Mariano Rajoy.
All of them joined the mayor's desire Lorca, Francisco Jodar, who, after a cold, damp night when many of his neighbors had to sleep with one coat of a blanket rule "full" people to sleep at Satin one more night and promised to give a bed to those who are unable or unwilling to return to their homes. To meet that goal, EMU installed yesterday three emergency camps: one near the forward command post, one in an institute of downtown and a third in one of the hardest-hit neighborhoods, La Viña. In total, settled tents and bunks for 4,000 people, according to a spokesman for the unit.
Zapatero said after meeting with his three vice-presidents and ministers of Defense, Development, and Labor Chairman, announced yesterday that the Council of Ministers approved a decree today to help victims. He also advanced the development of a comprehensive plan and guaranteed response to the earthquake reconstruction of the city. The Insurance Compensation Consortium under the Ministry of Economy, will pay compensation for damage to persons and property insurance.
Throughout yesterday, businesses were closed and suspended the school year. Lorca thousands along the streets aimlessly. Many of them bringing in bags and bags of belongings that had been removed from their homes. They walked down the middle of the roads, fleeing the sidewalks, where it seemed possible new detachments of cornices, coverings of facades, balconies and overhangs. Many broke to mourn at the state where their homes had been reduced. Others crowded outside their homes, waiting to be allowed to enter them.
Those who had to give permission were the architects and municipal technicians Lorca and other neighboring municipalities and autonomous regions, who inspected one by one all the buildings of the town. The soldiers were accompanied by the EMU, they helped them tear down the walls and damaged balconies that could pose a hazard for pedestrians. After exploring the buildings, painted in red access point if there was structural damage, yellow if the damage was repairable and green if they were habitable. They did it in record time. Late in the afternoon, the Minister of Justice in Murcia, Manuel Campos, said that 90% of the buildings of the town had been visited in the absence of villages.
The damage affected mostly low and commercial and retail floor height. The reason, according to experts, is that both earthquakes were very shallow, which multiplied its effects. In the Navarra street in the neighborhood of San Diego the fall of two ledges of the same building crushed a man and a woman.
Balance of damage
- Nine killed and 293 wounded. This is the final balance of the earthquake made by the Government of Murcia. The last deceased is a 41 year old woman was admitted to the hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca. The most seriously injured are a child of three years, a 36 and a 73.
- 17% of buildings suffered structural damage Lorca and must be demolished or rehabilitated. Moreover, 38% had serious damage. About 9,000 people will have difficulty returning to their homes. "The important thing is to help people who can not return home, we must help them, and you also have to prepare for long, because some people will see her life affected for a long time," Rubalcaba said yesterday the vice president.
- Emergency aid from the Government. The Council of Ministers is expected to approve today a royal decree law with a series of urgent measures to alleviate the effects caused by the earthquake and help the victims and regional and local entities.
- The government has mobilized nearly 1,300 officers, soldiers and officials of the National Police, Civil Guard, the Directorate General of Traffic, the Military Emergency Unit and the Red Cross.
- The Army has deployed three camps to accommodate them to 4,000 people. It has also provided a field hospital.
- Social Security deferrals and deferrals granted quotas of up to three months with a return period of one year, businesses and freelancers based in Lorca, in particular, and generally in the community of Murcia.
- The compensation will exceed 36 million euros, according to the Insurance Compensation Consortium, which estimates that claims will be registered "tens of thousands." Those affected have seven days to claim.
- Avoid elevators and cornices. Emergency services repeated a number of basic safety tips: The first is to not use the elevators. Second, avoid walking under ledges.

Una central nuclear desechada junto a Lorca
13/05/2011
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Deadly Earthquake in Murcia A nuclear plant scrapped along with Lorca RAFAEL MENDEZ - Lorca - 13/05/2011
In the seventies, the power company Iberdrola wanted to build a nuclear plant on the shore of Eagle, about 20 miles of Lorca, where on Wednesday there was an earthquake that caused nine deaths, 17% of damaged buildings and left Street thousands of citizens.
In relation to the proposed nuclear plant in Aguilas, the opposition of the neighbors then, many residents in the town of Lorca and other nearby towns, the drop in demand for electricity and nuclear moratorium ruined the project that never left levels. It was the central one is planned to build in a seismic area in Spain.
The central Cofrentes in Valencia, is located about 200 kilometers from the epicenter of the earthquake in Lorca, and it worked normally, as explained yesterday by the Nuclear Safety Council said in a statement.
The area where the power company Iberdrola had planned in the seventies put the nuclear power plant was finally safe Eagles brick and is one of the largest natural areas in the Mediterranean.
Now, the present Government of Murcia, the Popular Party, the company Iberdrola, which owns the land, and other real estate companies, aim to raise tens of thousands of homes in the Marina complex, known as COPE.
The growing controversy over the location of nuclear power, following the Japanese earthquake that badly damaged Fukushima facilities has led environmentalists to remember the enormous risk that Spain would have meant carrying out the project to build a nuclear plant this type on the coast Aguilas.
After the crisis of Fukushima, the Nuclear Safety Council of Spain pointed out that in the Peninsula no nuclear facilities in seismic risk areas. The installation of Eagles have changed this picture.

 Mas de 160 edificios de Lorca, en riesgo de derrumbe
13/05/2011
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Deadly Earthquake in Murcia More than 160 buildings Lorca, at risk of collapse With 80% of all buildings assessed, 12% are in the red level, 40% in yellow and 48% in the green .- More than 2,000 people sleep the second night in the camp .- Defense and the Red Cross enabled more than 5,000 beds in stores .- Nine schools will not open in the remainder of the course and the 13 churches in the city have structural damage. "The Council of Ministers adopted a decree to help victims MANUEL Altozano / OSCAR SANZ | Lorca / Madrid 13/05/2011
Technicians have already assessed the 80% of all buildings of Lorca, in total, 1,374. Of these, 12% (164) have been marked with a red circle, which means it is banned by structural damage, but it "does not necessarily mean the demolition," says the local council. 40% have been framed in the yellow level, ie, "no structural defects but access should be done with caution because of the risk of falls or landslides, pending a second inspection by the technical services." And the remaining 48% are in the green level (floor).
At the moment, it is impossible to calculate the number of people who can not return to their homes, or definitely not in the coming days. The urban settings of Lorca, with the vast majority of single-family buildings and a relatively small number of tall buildings, preventing the calculation. Moreover, none of the sources consulted clarified the number of dwellings that house the buildings affected by the earthquake.
Normality is still far in Lorca, where nine schools (six primary and primary schools and three schools) will not open and the remainder of the course. The 6,600 students affected, according to figures from the Ministry of Education, will be redistributed by the 24 remaining centers of the city, which will reopen next week. In addition, the 13 churches in the city suffer structural damage, so can not open its doors in a indefinite period, without discarding any of them have to be demolished.
Last night, about 2,100 people slept in the five camps in Lorca willing to accommodate citizens who could not access their homes because of damage caused by earthquakes of magnitude 4.4 and 5.1, on Wednesday, according to revealed the vice president and Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba. The City Council is satisfied that in the camps is infiltrating people from other villages in order to eat and sleep. For this reason, plans to take a census.
Most assisted by civil protection services last night were members of the rich colony of immigrants from the city, being the most difficult sector to stay with relatives or friends. Oscar Viacis, of Ecuador, whose home is located in the most affected group, slept in an army tent with his wife and two daughters after the first night I had to do in the open.
Meanwhile, Fidelia Tapia Muñoz, Colombia, was up to three hours waiting in line to being assigned a cot, so he chose to leave the line and, along with a few companions, makeshift tents near a place to stay overnight with newspapers and blankets. His case has not been the only one, so the number of people sleeping in the open last night was probably higher than the 2,100 who did so in the camps.
This morning, the Council of Ministers approved a Royal Decree to "urgent action" to remedy the "substantial" damages. For example, aid to individuals of up to 18,000 euros in cases of death or total and permanent disability, rent subsidies of up to 6671.70 per year when the residence has been inahabitable or necessary repair, tax benefits; and special aid for the rehabilitation of cultural heritage of the city.
Businesses and self-employed will get a one-year moratorium on the payment of Social Security contributions. In addition, and in exceptional circumstances, it is anticipated the June 1 payment of the bonus to pensioners.
For another, the vice president, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, announced that the Government will review the seismic resistant construction standards. "With nine dead and tens of thousands of people on the street, no serious country would this magazine," he said.
In the Council of Ministers has not been present the Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who has attended the funeral along with the princes of Asturias, the regional president, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, the Development Minister, José Blanco, and Speaker PP in the Congress of Deputies years, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría. These funerals were only four coffins, and that the wishes of the families of the other five deaths, they will be dismissed by their families in private ceremonies.
Balance end of fatalities and injuries
In the eight victims of Wednesday, yesterday joined a new death. It is Montiel María Dolores Sánchez, 41. After getting hurt, was taken to hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca of Murcia, where he died. The other dead were Antonia Sanchez, who died in the collapse of a building in Calle Infante Juan Manuel, the Barrio de La Viña, Juan Canales (50), on which was rained a shower of debris when leaving a hair salon in the street Galicia neighborhood of San Diego; Emilia Moreno (22 years and eight months pregnant), on which a wall collapsed in the districts, the shoe entrepreneur Rafael Mateos (50), Juan Salinas, Domingo Garcia and Pedro José Rubio, as Emergency sources of Murcia. The boy Raul Guerrero, 13, died at the gates of her grandfather's bar in the neighborhood of La Viña, buried under a ledge. Remain in the hospital Murcia Arrixaca three seriously injured, a woman of 73 years, another 36 and a three, whose evolution is favorable.
Balance of damage
- Nine killed and 293 wounded. This is the final balance of the earthquake made by the Government of Murcia. The last deceased is a 41 year old woman was admitted to the hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca. The most seriously injured are a child of three years, a 36 and a 73.
- Emergency aid from the Government. The Council of Ministers is expected to approve today a royal decree law with a series of urgent measures to alleviate the effects caused by the earthquake and help the victims and regional and local entities.
- The government has mobilized nearly 1,300 officers, soldiers and officials of the National Police, Civil Guard, the Directorate General of Traffic, the Military Emergency Unit and the Red Cross.
- The Army has deployed three camps to accommodate them to 4,000 people. It has also provided a field hospital.
- Social Security deferrals and deferrals granted quotas of up to three months with a return period of one year, businesses and freelancers based in Lorca, in particular, and generally in the community of Murcia.
- The compensation will exceed 36 million euros, according to the Insurance Compensation Consortium, which estimates that claims will be registered "tens of thousands." Those affected have seven days to claim.
- Avoid elevators and cornices. Emergency services repeated a number of basic safety tips: The first is to not use the elevators. Second, avoid walking under ledges.


If you want to help Lorca ...
The municipality of Lorca has enabled an account to collect funds for earthquake victims, and dozens of organizations and companies since yesterday sent food, clothing, blankets and tents to cover the basic needs of evacuees. These organizations include the Scouts group in the region of Murcia, that since the earthquake occurred, collaborates in the task of collecting and distributing food and blankets, along with Red Cross volunteers, soldiers and members of Civil Protection.
The Scout group has carried out food / water in the various municipalities in the region and has given all of the tents available for Lorca who can not return to their homes yet can accommodate them. Lorca consistory sources have called the media to make public the account to help the homeless, residing in Cajamurcia, which is 20430090302007007302.
This initiative has been driven by the CRM group, rural banks of the Mediterranean, through the accounts of the NGOs with which this organization works regularly. These organizations are Red Cross (3082-1005-11-4345884524), Unicef ​​(3082-1005-10-4438795322), Manos Unidas (3082-1005-11-3000318224) and Intermon (3082-1019-55-4339753123).
Diocesan Caritas organization also has set up a Cajamurcia account number, the 2043-0023-66-2007001348, for those that wish to make financial contributions, and the Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives in the Region of Murcia (Fecoam) Cajamar, with the number 3058-0308-10-2720011129).
Red Cross is also working with more than 200 volunteers in Lorca that focus on the distribution of food and water, psychosocial care, health support to the public health service, and the provision of shelters for those affected, in collaboration with the Military Unit Emergency (UME).
A Red Cross campaign have joined the group Mediaset Antena 3 and Spain have made available to all platforms of their groups to inform as many viewers on ways that this institution has been to assist the victims.
Also, through the Red Cross are assisting telephone companies. Telefónica has enabled a number for sending short messages, 28077, full amount of which will go to Red Cross for relief efforts and recovery of the area and also will not charge customers Lorca, or calls or the Messages from the past three days. Orange has provided the same number for sending short messages, while Vodafone encourages its customers to send an sms with the symbol CRE to 28052, the same word Telstra users can send to 28066 if you want to help those affected. Proceeds from the cost of the messages will go to Red Cross.
For its part, the program Anda Ya Top 40 chain has donated 30,000 euros for those affected, the same amount that have been the audience prize in the blank check.


Los terremotos paradojicos
13/05/2011
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Deadly Earthquake in Murcia Paradoxical Earthquakes The type of soil and surface hypocenter multiplied the destructive effect - Experts say larger earthquakes left no victims RAFAEL MENDEZ - Lorca - 13/05/2011
In Murcia are accustomed to earthquakes. Lorca is also the area of ​​Spain with Granada at risk from earthquakes of higher intensity. The Murcia know. Builders who rise buildings in the region as well, because they are forced (as in all areas of seismic hazard) to build earthquake-resistant standards compliance calls (2002), which are assessed elsewhere in the country. But Wednesday's earthquake was paradoxical. With 5.2 degrees, was not even remotely, the highest magnitude recorded in Spain, has been earthquake of 7 degrees with no fatalities, "but one of the most destructive. COUNTRY asked a dozen experts why.
- Hypocenter very superficial and very focused. Technicians consulted agree that one of the factors that influenced the earthquake hazard is that it has produced very little depth. "According to the protocol, earthquakes are dangerous from a magnitude of 5.5. With the intensity that had this were not expected the damage it has caused. On February 28, 1969 occurred in the Cabo de San Vicente a 7.8 on the Richter scale left 19 dead and in 1964 another in Durcal (Granada), 7 no casualties, "said Alberto Sereno, director general of the National Geographic Institute (IGN). "In this case, as a disturbance in 1956, with a magnitude of 5 and 11 dead, the earthquake occurred at a very superficial level and was focalizadísimo.
The quake generated a huge acceleration of city land, the largest in Spain since 1984 IGN installed the first meters. The machine that Lorca Institute has measured a peak acceleration of up to 0.367 g (each g is the acceleration due to gravity, 9.8 meters / second2). To give an idea, though the comparison is not accurate, because you have to apply conversion factors that reduce peak-acceleration, the construction standard in Lorca requires buildings to withstand an acceleration of 0.12 g, three times lower.
Juan Manuel Mayor, responsible for the network of accelerometers in Murcia, Lorca said yesterday that the first earthquake, of magnitude 4.8, was measured peak acceleration of 0.275 g in the north. In the second, 5.2, this value amounted to 0.367. Fortunately for scientists, IGN accelerometer is located in the heart of Lorca, in the old jail. A few miles away in Alhama de Murcia, the nearest accelerometer measured a ground acceleration of 0.012 g, 30 times less than in Lorca, according to Emilio Carreno, director of the National Seismic Network. That helps explain why the damage is so focused on Lorca, its streets dotted with debris, while nearby towns noticed the tremor but no major damage.
- The floor, soft and amplified barrage type waves. Luis Suarez, president of the Association of Geologists, shares the view that the shallowness of the earthquake and its proximity to population centers was critical, adding the type of soil in the area. Explains that Lorca is on a valley dominated by sandy soils and gravels, which, to earthquakes, make the soil has a plastic behavior, almost liquid, which increases the risk of damage and even collapse of buildings. This phenomenon is known geologically as "liquefaction." Jose Martinez, a geologist at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a descendant of Lorca, agrees that the fact that part of the resort town is over an area of ​​alluvial deposits, "amplified the signal of seismic waves."
- The state of buildings and resistance standards. In Lorca hardly any collapsed buildings, although cornices on the ground, buildings cracked and sagging balconies. The current earthquake resistance standards from 2002, but dragged a history of the sixteenth century when a royal order was issued that required it to take into account the impact that produced the earthquakes and building in line in places like the Philippines. Since that time, after every major earthquake in Spain (1829, 1894, 1952 ...) have been prepared technical reports. "We can learn from earthquakes," explains the director of the National Geological Institute. With that philosophy in 1974 created the Permanent Commission of seismic-resistant standards (Ministry of Development), to apply the lessons learned build on each earthquake and reduce risk. "This type of earthquakes occur every 500 years. If we do things right, the next there will be many casualties," says Sereno.
These standards are mandatory and consist, roughly, in reinforcements in foundations, columns, beams and trusses, to avoid the collapse effect is known as a sandwich, said Luis Suarez. The president of the Association of Geologists believed that the buildings have endured Lorca right from the structural viewpoint, but instead, "has failed the section of ledges and walls." On a scale that measures the damage, technicians IGN estimated yesterday that around 7, which means damage in concrete structures.
Smith explained that the municipalities are the principal guarantors of these requirements are met by granting building licenses. The rule adds Sobrini Paloma, dean of the College of Architects of Madrid, "divided by areas of seismic risk Spanish territory and includes the use of building, it is not like building a hospital, bank, or a home." One of the most important parameters when building is precisely the ground acceleration.
The legislation does not apply to heritage. "There is no specific legislation to revise the monumental buildings. The bell tower was of masonry fell off and had a rigid, unable to warp, and these are the structures that have more risk," argues Professor of University structures Barcelona Lluís Moya. "Unfortunately," he adds, "buildings were built before 1974 did not address charges that a building supports when there is earth movement." For this reason, claims Sobrini "encourage a rehabilitation plan for buildings" before the law. "The technical inspection should be as preventive medicine, to detect problems before they occur misfortunes." Vice Rubalcaba said yesterday: "We have to take a look at the regulations and safety protocols."

La "mayor catastrofe cultural"
13/05/2011
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Deadly Earthquake in Murcia The "greatest cultural catastrophe" J. FERNANDO PEREZ - Lorca - 13/05/2011
The Minister of Culture and Tourism of Murcia, Pedro Alberto Cruz, yesterday described the damage caused by the earthquake in the historic buildings of Lorca as "the greatest heritage disaster occurred in Europe in recent years." Among other damage, the earthquake caused the collapse and displacement of part of the castle.
Cruz detailed the damage detected by technical architects and public and private, and announced emergency measures, including the indefinite closure of all the historic parishes of the municipality. According to the Minister, property housed in listed buildings of cultural interest as well just have been damaged, except some parts of the archaeological museum, "but those seen in the buildings are" catastrophic. " In one of the most emblematic buildings in the city, the Lorca Castle, built between the ninth and fifteenth centuries, the Tower of Ram "has split and moved from its original position." Technical Diocese of Cartagena yesterday inspected the progress of over 15 churches in town. The temple has been damaged the Baroque church of Santiago, the eighteenth century.

 Una lluivia mortal de piedras
13/05/2011
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Deadly Earthquake in Murcia A deadly rain of stones The release of ledges and collapsing buildings in the street killed nine people, four men, four women and a child SANTIAGO NAVARRO - Lorca - 13/05/2011
Death came from the sky in a shower of stones caused by the shock triggered by two earthquakes that took the pain to Lorca (Murcia) in the afternoon on Wednesday. The earth shook and spit death some buildings collapsed or suffered because of its cornices landslides. The Lorca lived through the worst nightmare that had never known.
The Lorca earthquake victims died on the sidewalks of the city street as a result of the rubble and landslides triggered by the swaying of the buildings for a few seconds. Nine Lorca (four women, four men and one child) were killed by the worst earthquake in recent decades.
Antonia Sanchez Gallego, Juana López Canales, Emilia Moreno Moreno, Pedro José Rubio Corbalan, Juan Salinas Navarro, Domingo Garcia Urrea, Rafael Mateos Rodríguez, María Dolores Sánchez and child Montiel Raul Guerrero Molina are the nine people killed by the worst earthquake Spain suffered in years. What follows are snippets of their stories.
- Rafael, businessman and sportsman. Edge of seven in the evening of Wednesday, Rafael Mateo, 50, chatted to the door of his shoe store with a retired friend and another young man who made a break on their march through the city cyclist. Suddenly, on the sidewalk the premises located at the junction of Bridge Street Gimeno Volunteers in the neighborhood of San Cristobal, debris rained down from the terrace of the building of four floors. Rafael, his friend retired and the young cyclist died on the spot. "It was a great businessman and a great sportsman, loving especially football and cycling," said a neighbor. "My uncle was a fighter always on guard to defend their business," said a relative of the deceased. Rafael leaves a wife and twin sons. The businessman died combined direct sales activity in the shop stalls in the markets of the region.
- Jane, "a woman fighter." Six blocks north, and in the neighborhood of San Diego, the earthquake took the lives of Juana Canales, a woman about 50 years. Juana Rosa leaving a hair salon, located on Calle Galicia, when suddenly the rock-fall of the buildings in the area caused by the earthquake killed him. "She was very feisty, always in the hospitality business, whose history goes back to a restaurant at the entrance to Lorca," said a neighbor. "We ran a winery with her husband in the urban area of ​​the city," said a neighbor. Juana leaves two orphan about 30 years and both disabled.
A few yards away where the earthquake took the lives of Jane, Olcina street, rescue teams found the body of another man of 44 years.
The widening of Lorca, ie the districts of San Diego and San Cristobal, have accumulated more than half of those killed in the earthquake. At the southern end of town, in the young neighborhood of La Viña, the earthquake killed three people. Antonia Sanchez was one of them.
- Antonia died but saved her two children. The woman was walking down the street Infante Don Juan Manuel accompanied by her son and daughter, one and three years, when he collapsed in a building of six floors. The barrage of rubble buried Joan, but her maternal instincts saved her two children, who took refuge on his body.
In the vicinity of the street was also killed a man of 37 years.
- The small ledge killed Raul. A few hundred meters from the fateful point where Antonia died, the Tragedy struck the child Raul Guerrero, 13. The boy was at the door of the bar La Viña, at number 8 of the Granada road, when off the ledge of the building and fell down on the small. Raul was killed instantly at the pain of his mother and his paternal grandfather, Ginés. Raul Little was known affectionately in the neighborhood as the nephew of old cigar, referring to his grandfather's penchant for this kind of snuff. Yesterday, Ginés evoked in tears for his grandson. "It was fantastic, good student and a born athlete, he loved soccer and swimming." "It was a normal kid, like any other of his age," he added ruefully his grandfather's face.
- Emilia, mother and eight months pregnant. At the foot of the castle of Lorca in the neighborhood of San Pedro, the earthquake hit buried dreams of Emilia Moreno. The 22 years, eight months pregnant and mother of a girl of three months, rested on a wall.
Suddenly, the wall fell on the back of Emilia, who was crushed in the rubble. The young earthquake victim lived with her partner Herminio in-law's house. "She was very vital, and beautiful," said a resident of the neighborhood.

 Nadie quiere la noche
13/05/2011