Spain: Earthquake rocks Lorca, Murcia, killing 10

On Wednesday evening's quake came about two hours after a 4.4-magnitude tremor.The magnitude-5.2 tremor toppled several buildings. For that reason, as night fell many people were still too afraid to return to their homes and they have spent the night outdoors in the southern Spanish town of Lorca after an earthquake which killed at least 10 people.

Lines of cars lay crushed under tonnes of rubble and a hospital was evacuated as a precaution. Spanish TV captured dramatic images of a church bell tower crashing to the ground, landing just metres from a cameraman. Shocked residents and workers rushed out of buildings and gathered in squares, parks and open spaces. Old buildings were badly damaged and on the streets are many people with injuries

The quake is the most serious to hit Spain in about 50 years. Normally, Spain has hundreds of earthquakes every year but most of them are too small to be noticed.

I think that the people are too much fixed at the earthquake in Japan. The spanish goverment have know this problem since a lot of years. The reason for these eartquakes is that Murcia is close to the large faultline beneath the Mediterranean Sea where the European and African continents meet. There were a lot of eartquakes during the last 50 years and the most of the houses there were still break down or broken from others earquakes. I think if the politicans know that this is a dangerous area, they could give them money to renew the building and made them more save or install some warning sistems.