On air at 1100GMT: Latest on the Spanish earthquake
| 09:46 UK time, Thursday, 12 May 2011
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This topic was discussed on World Have Your Say on 12 May 2011. Listen to the programme.
Thousands of people in Spain have slept outside overnight after an earthquake hit the town of Lorca in the south of the country. The quake measured 5.2 on richter scale and it's thought at least 8 people have been killed and dozens injured.
Spanish TV captured incredible pictures of a church bell tower crashing to the ground, landing just metres from a cameraman.
"The population is scared and are very afraid to return to their homes. There are thousands of very disorientated people."
One woman told national radio
"We were just sat here and everything began to move, pictures fell from the wall, the TV fell and (the quake) went on for ages. We looked out of the window and there were a lot of people running, an ambulance and the police."
after the Red Cross set up more than 800 small foldable beds in a hangar on the edge of town.
They estimate that around 15,000 people are now homeless in the city of 90,000 people
Pepe Tomas a nurse at a local clinic told the Times of Malta,
"We know we live near a fault line but we never thought this would happen to us. People are afraid. No one here has ever seen anything like this before."
The last fatal earthquake to hit Spain was in 1997, when one person was killed, according to the US Geological Survey.
We'll be speaking to people who experienced the earthquake in and around Lorca.
