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Rescue workers survey the damage to a building in Lorca, after a rare earthquake rocked the town in southeastern Spain causing houses to collapse, damaging historic churches and public buildings and killing at least six people, May 11, 2011
Thursday, May. 12, 2011

Open quotePeople don't dare go back into their homes. I can't tell them to go home and spend the night there as I can't promise them that there will not be another quake.Close quote

  • FRANCISCO JODAR,
  • mayor of the Spanish city of Lorca, where at least 10 people were killed by the country's worst earthquake in half a century
Photo: Francisco Bonilla / Reuters | Source: The Guardian