EL SALVADOR: FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF EARTHQUAKE THAT CLAIMED HUNDREDS OF LIVES IS MARKED WITH SOBER REMEMBRANCE

Record ID: 584720

  • Title: EL SALVADOR: FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF EARTHQUAKE THAT CLAIMED HUNDREDS OF LIVES IS MARKED WITH SOBER REMEMBRANCE
  • Date: 16th January 2002
  • Summary: (W1)SANTA TECLA, EL SALVADOR (JANUARY 13, 2002)(REUTERS) 1. HAS PAN MASS AT A CHURCH IN LAS COLINAS NEIGHBOURHOOD 0.07 2. SLV CHURCH MEMBERS ENTERING CHURCH; MV CONGREGATION (2 SHOTS) 0.17 3. MV PEOPLE TAKING COMMUNION 0.21 4. MV FAMILY MEMBERS OF EARTHQUAKE CHILD VICTIM 0.26 5. SCU PORTRAIT OF KILLED CHILD 0.30 6. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CARMEN DE MARIN, MOTHER OF KILLED CHILD, SAYING "One year after this happened, I feel sadness and joy. Sadness, because of the tragedy that occurred and joy, because we know that it's been a year since my child was called to the presence of the Lord. That's the best place my son can be, and that is what gives me so much strength." 0.46 7. SCU FAMILIES CRYING 0.50 8. SLV OPEN AIR MASS 0.56 9. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) MONSIGNOR GREGORIO ROSA CHAVEZ SAYING "We have come to say we are here, and to unite in a single prayer for all the victims, those from this place and those from all over the country, those from January 13th and those from January 14th." 1.15 10. MV THE PRESIDENT OF EL SALVADOR DELIVERING NEW HOMES 1.24 11. SLV FAMILIES IN NEW HOMES 1.30 12. MV POT ON FIRE AND GIRLS AWAIT IN KITCHEN 1.35 13. MV DONOR COUNTRY FLAGS 1.40 (W1)SACACOYO, EL SALVADOR (JANUARY 13, 2002) (REUTERS) 14. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PRESIDENT FRANCISO FLORES SAYING: "A lot of people, a lot of Salvadoreans lost their loves ones. They had to spend last Christmas without a husband, without a brother, a father, or a son. There is nothing in the world that can repair that kind of damage.There is no way to compensate for that. It is possible to rebuild a house, you can build a street all over again, but you cannot have, once again, those loved ones that are gone and the Salvadoreans that are with us no more." 2.09 (W1)SAN MARTIN, EL SALVADOR (JANUARY 13, 2002) (REUTERS) 15. SLV COMMUNITY THAT HAS NOT RECEIVED AID 2.16 16. SCU COMMUNITY CHILDREN (TODDLERS) 2.21 17. MV PEOPLE IN MAKESHIFT HOMES 2.25 18. MV CHILDREN NEXT TO CARDBOARD SHACK 2.28 19. MV NEIGHBOURS EATING 2.35 (W1)SANTA TECLA, EL SALVADOR (FILE) (REUTERS) 20. MV DISTRESSED MAN CRYING AND WALKING TOWARDS EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; RESCUERS DIGGING; WOMAN CARRIED AWAY; SLV BODIES; SLV SCENE OF EARTHQUAKE (7 SHOTS) 3.25 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: SANTA TECLA, SACACOYO AND SAN MARTIN, EL SALVADOR
  • Country: El Salvador
  • Reuters ID: LVA9HPTEFZW4LV6V26L3S23CW3HT
  • Story Text: Salvadoreans have marked the first anniversary of the
    devastating earthquakes that rocked several parts of the
    country and left hundreds of people dead in 2001.

    With prayers, religious services and sober remembrance,
    Salvadoreans marked the first anniversary on Monday (January
    14) of the devastating earthquakes that rocked the country in
    2001, leaving more that 1,100 people dead.

    In Santa Tecla, some 12 kilometres southwest of the
    capital city of San Salvador, families of the earthquakes'
    victims gathered at a mass and at ceremonies, placing flowers
    where hundreds of people were killed.

    The tremors happened one month apart, on January 13 and
    then February 13, 2001. They measured 7.6 and 6.6 degrees on
    the Richter scale, left 1,150 people dead, more than 8,000
    injured and 1.5 million people affected, one way or another
    They destroyed or damaged 335,000 homes and caused 1.6
    billion dollars worth of damage, a devastating blow to that
    small and impoverished Central American country.

    Las Colleens, a middle-class development in Las Tequilas,
    was destroyed by a mud slide January 13, 2001. About 300
    houses were buried, 440 people were killed and 200 are still
    missing.

    As part of a government rebuilding programme, 225,000
    temporary shelters were built using sheet metal and about
    37,000 homes were repaired, representing about 30 per cent of
    the total damage.

    Grieving relatives held each other during mass, as others
    carried flowers for their dead, some of them with pictures of
    the victims.

    Low level government representatives and of the agency for
    the protection of human rights attended the religious service.

    Local officials announced that, this year, they hope to
    restore the site where the 300 homes were buried.


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