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EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE
(14 Feb 2001) Natural Sound
A powerful earthquake shook El Salvador on Tuesday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing at least 127 people in a country still mourning more than 800 who died in an even stronger quake exactly one month ago.
The quake flattened much of the heart of San Vicente, 35 miles east of San Salvador, and damaged most of the homes and buildings in four surrounding towns.
The Salvadoran Red Cross say at least 127 people were killed and more than 1,200 were injured.
There are fears landslides that could add to the death toll.
The earthquake struck at 8:25 a.m. local time and was centered halfway between San Vicente and San Salvador.
The U.S. Geological Survey measured its magnitude at 6.6, a strong quake but not as devastating as the 7.6 magnitud...
published: 21 Jul 2015
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EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE: AFTERMATH
(14 Jan 2001) Spanish/Nat
XFA
A major earthquake has rocked central America, killing at least 122 people and unleashing a landslide that's buried hundreds of houses near the El Salvador capital, San Salvador.
About 12-hundred people were unaccounted for in the buried Las Colinas neighbourhood just west of El Salvador's capital and at least 120 people are known to be dead across the country, according to a National Emergency Committee.
Two people died in Guatemala.
Police in El Salvador put the toll from Saturday's 7.6-magnitude quake at 234 confirmed and 2-thousand injured.
Police said 16,148 houses were damaged and 4,202 destroyed.
They also reported damage to 87 churches and 39 other buildings.
The 7-point-6 magnitude quake centred off El Salvador's southern c...
published: 21 Jul 2015
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7.4 quake strikes off El Salvador
A 7.4 magnitude quake struck off the coast of El Salvador. A tsunami advisory is out for local areas.
published: 14 Oct 2014
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EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE
(18 Feb 2001) Span/Eng/Nat
XFA
Another earthquake has hit El Salvador, the third in a month.
People there are still struggling to cope with the effects of the two earlier quakes - one last Tuesday and one five weeks ago.
Crowds of people, some of them weeping, ran into the streets after the five-point-three quake hit with a sudden thud.
The quake sent ominous clouds of dust rising from the crater of the San Salvador Volcano overlooking the city.
It created further anxiety for San Salvador, where the two earlier quakes killed more than 12-hundred people in total.
The new quake comes as Salvador's officials are warning of donor fatigue, saying people's attention has turned elsewhere, before they have received sufficient funds and aid for those effected.
Thousands of pe...
published: 21 Jul 2015
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EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE
(28 Feb 2001) Spanish/Nat
A strong earthquake shook the capital of El Salvador on Wednesday, panicking residents still recovering from two devastating quakes in a month and a string of powerful aftershocks.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The 5.4-magnitude quake hit at 12:42 p-m local time (18:52 GMT) and was centered along the Pacific coast about 169 kilometers (105 miles) southeast of the capital.
It was felt as far away as Nicaragua.
Rescue crews raced around the city to check for damage, while panicked people stayed outside.
The quake caused landslides along main highways in central and western El Salvador.
Two powerful earthquakes, on January 13 and February 13, killed at least 1-thousand-246 people and injured another 8-thousand.
The ...
published: 21 Jul 2015
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EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE: US DOCTORS (V)
(23 Feb 2001) Voice and effects
Voiced by Vera Frankl
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has appealed to donors for U-S 2.4 million dollars in emergency aid for farmers in earthquake-stricken El Salvador.
The funds would provide 20-thousand poor farmers in the Central American nation with 800 tons of seeds - maize, beans and vegetables - and fertilizers and tools, the Rome-based agency said.
There are also plan to repair damaged irrigation systems and farm infrastructure.
The appeal comes as medics struggle to cope with the ongoing health problems caused by the two powerful earthquakes that struck El Salvador on Jan. 13 and Feb. 13 killing more than one thousand two hundred people, and injuring at least eight thousand.
00 02 The victims of the two rec...
published: 21 Jul 2015
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EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE: RESCUE
(14 Jan 2001) Spanish/Eng/Nat
XFA
The Central American earthquake death toll is rising.
In the confusion following Saturday's seven-point-six magnitude quake, officials gave varying accounts of the damage.
In El Salvador, official reports on Sunday said at least 120 people had died.
But the national police put the number of dead at more than 234, with another two- thousand injured.
These numbers are almost certain to increase substantially in the next few days.
The Red Cross said at least 12-hundred people were unaccounted for in the Las Colinas neighbourhood of Santa Tecla, about six miles (10 kilometers) west of the Salvadoran capital.
And the National Emergency Committee announced on Sunday that 10 people were missing across the country.
Two more people were r...
published: 21 Jul 2015
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EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE KILLS SEVENTY
(13 Feb 2001) Spanish/Nat
A powerful earthquake in El Salvador shook hundreds of buildings to the ground on Tuesday, killing at least 70 people in a country still in mourning from an even greater quake that killed hundreds a month before.
The U.S. Geological Survey measured the new quake at magnitude 6-point-6 and said it was centered near the midpoint between San Vicente and the capital, San Salvador.
The heart of San Vicente, 35 miles (55 kms) east of the capital was almost flattened by the new quake, which struck at 8:25 A-M local time (1425 GMT).
It also devastated the area around San Vicente, which had been less seriously damaged in the earlier quake.
Government emergency officials put the national death toll at 70, with 200 injured and hundreds if not thousands made ho...
published: 21 Jul 2015
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EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE LATEST
(18 Feb 2001) Spanish/Nat
XFA
The ground keeps shaking, the buildings constantly shudder.
And Salvadorans can barely stand it.
Two massive earthquakes that killed more than 12-hundred people have been accompanied by thousands of smaller jolts - sending people fleeing in panic to the streets day after day.
While by some account more than a million are homeless, even many of the fortunate are nervous wrecks.
Many of those with undamaged homes are sleeping on the street, too traumatized to be under a roof.
A Military hospital psychologist said the entire country is in a state of anxiety -- many are suffering from facial paralysis, ticks, skin problems, diarrhea, sleeplessness, stomach pains.
She tended to more than 80 people on Saturday after a moderate but sharp earthq...
published: 21 Jul 2015
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EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH: AID
(21 Feb 2001) Natural Sound
After three major earthquakes in one month, the people of El Salvador are in desperate need of aid.
People are finding it nearly impossible to cope with the series of quakes which have devastated their homes and families.
The government is finding it difficult to accommodate the thousands of people who are begging for help.
Local mayors, who are in charge of the aid distribution, have been attacked by desperate people who are struggling to live on very limited supplies of food and water and with inadequate shelter.
Psychological problems and a major wave of emigration are also adding to the desperation.
Many of the people from these devastated regions want to leave El Salvador and go to the U-S, but they are also looking at other dest...
published: 21 Jul 2015
4:14
EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE
(14 Feb 2001) Natural Sound
A powerful earthquake shook El Salvador on Tuesday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing at least 127 people in a country ...
(14 Feb 2001) Natural Sound
A powerful earthquake shook El Salvador on Tuesday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing at least 127 people in a country still mourning more than 800 who died in an even stronger quake exactly one month ago.
The quake flattened much of the heart of San Vicente, 35 miles east of San Salvador, and damaged most of the homes and buildings in four surrounding towns.
The Salvadoran Red Cross say at least 127 people were killed and more than 1,200 were injured.
There are fears landslides that could add to the death toll.
The earthquake struck at 8:25 a.m. local time and was centered halfway between San Vicente and San Salvador.
The U.S. Geological Survey measured its magnitude at 6.6, a strong quake but not as devastating as the 7.6 magnitude temblor that killed at least 844 people last month.
At least 12 adults and three children were killed in San Vicente.
Half of its houses were damaged, along with 90 percent of the houses in the nearby towns of San Cayetano, Guadalupe, Verapaz and Texistepeque.
Landslides blocked several highways that were still being restored after the January 13 quake, including the Panamerican Highway to Guatemala.
Radio station YSKL reported that two children died in the collapse of a school in Cojutepeque, 20 miles east of San Salvador, and that landslides had isolated many small villages.
Emergency officials said at least three people died when a grain silo collapsed in San Martin, about 10 miles east of the capital.
The government sent students home across the nation of 6 million people and evacuated most public buildings so they could be checked for damage.
In San Salvador, hospital patients' beds were lined up in the streets as administrators waited for officials to inspect the buildings.
The January earthquake killed at least 844 people, injured 4,723 and destroyed 278,000 houses. Hundreds more remain missing and are believed dead.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"We used to live down there and after the earthquake (last month), we moved to this other house. That's where we were. The first one got destroyed and that's why we moved to that one..."
SUPERCAPTION: Ana Cristabel Tiznado, Relative of victim
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"An older woman died there. I pulled her out. That post there, she was inside there and it fell on her head. I was outside and that's how I've survived."
SUPERCAPTION: Pedro Gomez, Local resident
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"Look I was working and had left my children with my mother and the wall fell on them."
SUPERCAPTION: Blanca Estela Garcia, Mother of injured child
SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
"I'm inspecting the body, a legal formality after the death of this young girl."
SUPERCAPTION: Local doctor
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"Injured alone we pulled sixty of them all from that area....."
SUPERCAPTION: Juan Gonzalez, Rescuer
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https://wn.com/El_Salvador_Earthquake
(14 Feb 2001) Natural Sound
A powerful earthquake shook El Salvador on Tuesday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing at least 127 people in a country still mourning more than 800 who died in an even stronger quake exactly one month ago.
The quake flattened much of the heart of San Vicente, 35 miles east of San Salvador, and damaged most of the homes and buildings in four surrounding towns.
The Salvadoran Red Cross say at least 127 people were killed and more than 1,200 were injured.
There are fears landslides that could add to the death toll.
The earthquake struck at 8:25 a.m. local time and was centered halfway between San Vicente and San Salvador.
The U.S. Geological Survey measured its magnitude at 6.6, a strong quake but not as devastating as the 7.6 magnitude temblor that killed at least 844 people last month.
At least 12 adults and three children were killed in San Vicente.
Half of its houses were damaged, along with 90 percent of the houses in the nearby towns of San Cayetano, Guadalupe, Verapaz and Texistepeque.
Landslides blocked several highways that were still being restored after the January 13 quake, including the Panamerican Highway to Guatemala.
Radio station YSKL reported that two children died in the collapse of a school in Cojutepeque, 20 miles east of San Salvador, and that landslides had isolated many small villages.
Emergency officials said at least three people died when a grain silo collapsed in San Martin, about 10 miles east of the capital.
The government sent students home across the nation of 6 million people and evacuated most public buildings so they could be checked for damage.
In San Salvador, hospital patients' beds were lined up in the streets as administrators waited for officials to inspect the buildings.
The January earthquake killed at least 844 people, injured 4,723 and destroyed 278,000 houses. Hundreds more remain missing and are believed dead.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"We used to live down there and after the earthquake (last month), we moved to this other house. That's where we were. The first one got destroyed and that's why we moved to that one..."
SUPERCAPTION: Ana Cristabel Tiznado, Relative of victim
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"An older woman died there. I pulled her out. That post there, she was inside there and it fell on her head. I was outside and that's how I've survived."
SUPERCAPTION: Pedro Gomez, Local resident
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"Look I was working and had left my children with my mother and the wall fell on them."
SUPERCAPTION: Blanca Estela Garcia, Mother of injured child
SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
"I'm inspecting the body, a legal formality after the death of this young girl."
SUPERCAPTION: Local doctor
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"Injured alone we pulled sixty of them all from that area....."
SUPERCAPTION: Juan Gonzalez, Rescuer
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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3:01
EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE: AFTERMATH
(14 Jan 2001) Spanish/Nat
XFA
A major earthquake has rocked central America, killing at least 122 people and unleashing a landslide that's buried hundreds of...
(14 Jan 2001) Spanish/Nat
XFA
A major earthquake has rocked central America, killing at least 122 people and unleashing a landslide that's buried hundreds of houses near the El Salvador capital, San Salvador.
About 12-hundred people were unaccounted for in the buried Las Colinas neighbourhood just west of El Salvador's capital and at least 120 people are known to be dead across the country, according to a National Emergency Committee.
Two people died in Guatemala.
Police in El Salvador put the toll from Saturday's 7.6-magnitude quake at 234 confirmed and 2-thousand injured.
Police said 16,148 houses were damaged and 4,202 destroyed.
They also reported damage to 87 churches and 39 other buildings.
The 7-point-6 magnitude quake centred off El Salvador's southern coast also rocked Honduras and Guatemala, where two deaths were reported.
Buildings swayed as far away as in Mexico City, some 960 kilometres (600 miles) to the northwest.
Salvadoran President Francisco Flores has declared a national emergency and appealed for international aid to help look for buried victims and assist survivors.
Hundreds of rescuers frantically ripped at the earth with sticks and bare hands to reach those buried in the middle class Las Colinas area, where a 1-thousand-500-foot landslide carried away houses, cars and trees.
By morning, 61 bodies had been recovered at Las Colinas.
At least three others reported missing had yet been found in the mass of dirt and concrete.
In the southeastern town of San Miguel, the wall of a hospital collapsed, while 25 people are known to be dead in a nearby village.
News of the damage has been slow to travel, as much of El Salvador's telephone service and electricity was knocked out by the quake for several hours.
Only sketchy reports have arrived from many hard-hit areas.
In Santa Ana, about 56 kilometres (35 miles) northwest of the capital, the 116-year-old El Calvario church collapsed, killing at least one worker and possibly others worshipping inside.
The Red Cross has reported that 13 people died in nearby Sosonati.
Some 200 other victims were rushed to the area hospital, which authorities weren't sure was still structurally sound.
The quake was centered off the Salvadoran coast, about 104 kilometres (65 miles)
southwest of San Miguel, according to the U-S Geological Survey in Denver, Colorado.
It took more than an hour for some San Salvador radio stations to return to the air and telephone services were still patchy at mid-afternoon on Saturday.
There were cracked buildings and shattered windows across the city of 500-thousand.
Officials at San Salvador's international airport said all flights had been cancelled.
Most businesses in the city closed.
A 1986 earthquake centered near San Salvador killed an estimated 1-thousand-500 people and injured 8-thousand.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"My children where buried. God knows who will help us."
SUPER CAPTION: Mother of earthquake victims
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"San Salvador, the capital, is where most of the ambulances are working. This area is the area most affected."
SUPER CAPTION: Red Cross worker
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"We have declared a national emergency which now allows us to move everything we need to deal with this emergency. At this point the priority of the national emergency committee and the government is to get those people out who are buried under the rubble.They are primarily located in the area of Berlin, the area most affected."
SUPER CAPTION: Francisco Flores, President of El Salvador
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https://wn.com/El_Salvador_Earthquake_Aftermath
(14 Jan 2001) Spanish/Nat
XFA
A major earthquake has rocked central America, killing at least 122 people and unleashing a landslide that's buried hundreds of houses near the El Salvador capital, San Salvador.
About 12-hundred people were unaccounted for in the buried Las Colinas neighbourhood just west of El Salvador's capital and at least 120 people are known to be dead across the country, according to a National Emergency Committee.
Two people died in Guatemala.
Police in El Salvador put the toll from Saturday's 7.6-magnitude quake at 234 confirmed and 2-thousand injured.
Police said 16,148 houses were damaged and 4,202 destroyed.
They also reported damage to 87 churches and 39 other buildings.
The 7-point-6 magnitude quake centred off El Salvador's southern coast also rocked Honduras and Guatemala, where two deaths were reported.
Buildings swayed as far away as in Mexico City, some 960 kilometres (600 miles) to the northwest.
Salvadoran President Francisco Flores has declared a national emergency and appealed for international aid to help look for buried victims and assist survivors.
Hundreds of rescuers frantically ripped at the earth with sticks and bare hands to reach those buried in the middle class Las Colinas area, where a 1-thousand-500-foot landslide carried away houses, cars and trees.
By morning, 61 bodies had been recovered at Las Colinas.
At least three others reported missing had yet been found in the mass of dirt and concrete.
In the southeastern town of San Miguel, the wall of a hospital collapsed, while 25 people are known to be dead in a nearby village.
News of the damage has been slow to travel, as much of El Salvador's telephone service and electricity was knocked out by the quake for several hours.
Only sketchy reports have arrived from many hard-hit areas.
In Santa Ana, about 56 kilometres (35 miles) northwest of the capital, the 116-year-old El Calvario church collapsed, killing at least one worker and possibly others worshipping inside.
The Red Cross has reported that 13 people died in nearby Sosonati.
Some 200 other victims were rushed to the area hospital, which authorities weren't sure was still structurally sound.
The quake was centered off the Salvadoran coast, about 104 kilometres (65 miles)
southwest of San Miguel, according to the U-S Geological Survey in Denver, Colorado.
It took more than an hour for some San Salvador radio stations to return to the air and telephone services were still patchy at mid-afternoon on Saturday.
There were cracked buildings and shattered windows across the city of 500-thousand.
Officials at San Salvador's international airport said all flights had been cancelled.
Most businesses in the city closed.
A 1986 earthquake centered near San Salvador killed an estimated 1-thousand-500 people and injured 8-thousand.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"My children where buried. God knows who will help us."
SUPER CAPTION: Mother of earthquake victims
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"San Salvador, the capital, is where most of the ambulances are working. This area is the area most affected."
SUPER CAPTION: Red Cross worker
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"We have declared a national emergency which now allows us to move everything we need to deal with this emergency. At this point the priority of the national emergency committee and the government is to get those people out who are buried under the rubble.They are primarily located in the area of Berlin, the area most affected."
SUPER CAPTION: Francisco Flores, President of El Salvador
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1:57
7.4 quake strikes off El Salvador
A 7.4 magnitude quake struck off the coast of El Salvador. A tsunami advisory is out for local areas.
A 7.4 magnitude quake struck off the coast of El Salvador. A tsunami advisory is out for local areas.
https://wn.com/7.4_Quake_Strikes_Off_El_Salvador
A 7.4 magnitude quake struck off the coast of El Salvador. A tsunami advisory is out for local areas.
- published: 14 Oct 2014
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3:08
EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE
(18 Feb 2001) Span/Eng/Nat
XFA
Another earthquake has hit El Salvador, the third in a month.
People there are still struggling to cope with the effects of...
(18 Feb 2001) Span/Eng/Nat
XFA
Another earthquake has hit El Salvador, the third in a month.
People there are still struggling to cope with the effects of the two earlier quakes - one last Tuesday and one five weeks ago.
Crowds of people, some of them weeping, ran into the streets after the five-point-three quake hit with a sudden thud.
The quake sent ominous clouds of dust rising from the crater of the San Salvador Volcano overlooking the city.
It created further anxiety for San Salvador, where the two earlier quakes killed more than 12-hundred people in total.
The new quake comes as Salvador's officials are warning of donor fatigue, saying people's attention has turned elsewhere, before they have received sufficient funds and aid for those effected.
Thousands of people are homeless following the country's recent tremors, and aid is not getting through.
Local mayors, who are in charge of the aid distribution, have been attacked by desperate people, who are struggling to live on very limited supplies of food and water, and with inadequate shelter.
President Francisco Flores heads to Europe in the coming days to plead a second time for emergency funds.
The government says it needs three (b) billion U-S dollars to get the country back on its feet.
The main opposition party, the former guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, started its own plan for reconstruction and has clashed with the government about how aid should be handled.
Before today's quake, officials had warned of further tremors.
Perhaps one of the most heart-breaking sights during this tragic and fraught time for El Salvador is the coffins lined up for people to collect.
The sign tells people they don't have to pay for them - they just have to let the authorities know the names of the dead.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"We cannot say when new tremors may happen and what size they may be. All Salvadoreans must be prepared at any time."
SUPER CAPTION: Mauricio Ferrer, Director of the National Commission for Emergencies
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"What is needed today is more attention on this shelter which has been a bit forgotten."
SUPER CAPTION: Vox pop
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"They're going to come soon, take people out, put an end to this, tell them they've got to move. But we've got nowhere to go."
SUPER CAPTION: Vox pop
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"The destruction of houses, what am I going to do? Who am I going to ask for help?"
SUPER CAPTION: Vox pop
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"The sympathy seems to have finished. Yes, help has arrived, but minimum. So we're getting very little help and donations and today, I don't know."
SUPER CAPTION: Vox pop
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https://wn.com/El_Salvador_Earthquake
(18 Feb 2001) Span/Eng/Nat
XFA
Another earthquake has hit El Salvador, the third in a month.
People there are still struggling to cope with the effects of the two earlier quakes - one last Tuesday and one five weeks ago.
Crowds of people, some of them weeping, ran into the streets after the five-point-three quake hit with a sudden thud.
The quake sent ominous clouds of dust rising from the crater of the San Salvador Volcano overlooking the city.
It created further anxiety for San Salvador, where the two earlier quakes killed more than 12-hundred people in total.
The new quake comes as Salvador's officials are warning of donor fatigue, saying people's attention has turned elsewhere, before they have received sufficient funds and aid for those effected.
Thousands of people are homeless following the country's recent tremors, and aid is not getting through.
Local mayors, who are in charge of the aid distribution, have been attacked by desperate people, who are struggling to live on very limited supplies of food and water, and with inadequate shelter.
President Francisco Flores heads to Europe in the coming days to plead a second time for emergency funds.
The government says it needs three (b) billion U-S dollars to get the country back on its feet.
The main opposition party, the former guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, started its own plan for reconstruction and has clashed with the government about how aid should be handled.
Before today's quake, officials had warned of further tremors.
Perhaps one of the most heart-breaking sights during this tragic and fraught time for El Salvador is the coffins lined up for people to collect.
The sign tells people they don't have to pay for them - they just have to let the authorities know the names of the dead.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"We cannot say when new tremors may happen and what size they may be. All Salvadoreans must be prepared at any time."
SUPER CAPTION: Mauricio Ferrer, Director of the National Commission for Emergencies
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"What is needed today is more attention on this shelter which has been a bit forgotten."
SUPER CAPTION: Vox pop
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"They're going to come soon, take people out, put an end to this, tell them they've got to move. But we've got nowhere to go."
SUPER CAPTION: Vox pop
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"The destruction of houses, what am I going to do? Who am I going to ask for help?"
SUPER CAPTION: Vox pop
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"The sympathy seems to have finished. Yes, help has arrived, but minimum. So we're getting very little help and donations and today, I don't know."
SUPER CAPTION: Vox pop
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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1:58
EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE
(28 Feb 2001) Spanish/Nat
A strong earthquake shook the capital of El Salvador on Wednesday, panicking residents still recovering from two devastating quakes...
(28 Feb 2001) Spanish/Nat
A strong earthquake shook the capital of El Salvador on Wednesday, panicking residents still recovering from two devastating quakes in a month and a string of powerful aftershocks.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The 5.4-magnitude quake hit at 12:42 p-m local time (18:52 GMT) and was centered along the Pacific coast about 169 kilometers (105 miles) southeast of the capital.
It was felt as far away as Nicaragua.
Rescue crews raced around the city to check for damage, while panicked people stayed outside.
The quake caused landslides along main highways in central and western El Salvador.
Two powerful earthquakes, on January 13 and February 13, killed at least 1-thousand-246 people and injured another 8-thousand.
The first quake was magnitude 7.6.
The second was 6.6.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"Well, I guess the only thing we can do it ask the Lord, to ask God that nothing more happens -- because it's He who can control these temblors, no one else."
SUPERCAPTION: Santa Tecla resident
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"It was quite strong. Most of the people live near the hills, but we live near the insurance building, and there it was quite strong"
SUPERCAPTION: Santa Tecla resident
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"My heart stopped. I felt very bad, like I've felt in all the quakes. We were in the house when it happened, something might have happened had we been in the market."
SUPERCAPTION: Santa Tecla resident
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https://wn.com/El_Salvador_Earthquake
(28 Feb 2001) Spanish/Nat
A strong earthquake shook the capital of El Salvador on Wednesday, panicking residents still recovering from two devastating quakes in a month and a string of powerful aftershocks.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The 5.4-magnitude quake hit at 12:42 p-m local time (18:52 GMT) and was centered along the Pacific coast about 169 kilometers (105 miles) southeast of the capital.
It was felt as far away as Nicaragua.
Rescue crews raced around the city to check for damage, while panicked people stayed outside.
The quake caused landslides along main highways in central and western El Salvador.
Two powerful earthquakes, on January 13 and February 13, killed at least 1-thousand-246 people and injured another 8-thousand.
The first quake was magnitude 7.6.
The second was 6.6.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"Well, I guess the only thing we can do it ask the Lord, to ask God that nothing more happens -- because it's He who can control these temblors, no one else."
SUPERCAPTION: Santa Tecla resident
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"It was quite strong. Most of the people live near the hills, but we live near the insurance building, and there it was quite strong"
SUPERCAPTION: Santa Tecla resident
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"My heart stopped. I felt very bad, like I've felt in all the quakes. We were in the house when it happened, something might have happened had we been in the market."
SUPERCAPTION: Santa Tecla resident
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1:27
EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE: US DOCTORS (V)
(23 Feb 2001) Voice and effects
Voiced by Vera Frankl
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has appealed to donors for U-S 2.4 million d...
(23 Feb 2001) Voice and effects
Voiced by Vera Frankl
XFA
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has appealed to donors for U-S 2.4 million dollars in emergency aid for farmers in earthquake-stricken El Salvador.
The funds would provide 20-thousand poor farmers in the Central American nation with 800 tons of seeds - maize, beans and vegetables - and fertilizers and tools, the Rome-based agency said.
There are also plan to repair damaged irrigation systems and farm infrastructure.
The appeal comes as medics struggle to cope with the ongoing health problems caused by the two powerful earthquakes that struck El Salvador on Jan. 13 and Feb. 13 killing more than one thousand two hundred people, and injuring at least eight thousand.
00 02 The victims of the two recent earthquakes are still arriving at makeshift hospitals throughout El Salvador.
00 08 This one in Candelaria is run by the U-S army
00 11 While some receive specialised medical treatment, others are waiting for more routine help.
All these people are forced to rely on free care being given by the aid agencies.
00 21 This woman says she doesn't have the means anymore to pay for a doctor's visit or to pay for medicine
00 28 FX 00 31
00 31 But the quakes have not only destroyed buildings and other material possessions.
00 36 They've left thousands of Salvadoreans struggling to come to terms with the enormity of the tragedy and the impact it's had on their lives.
00 44 SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Large turnout of people who needed both acute medical care, we provided a lot of veterinary services but the largest need appeared to be mental health services for stress management for people who had obvious mental ..uh.. were mentally affected by the affects of the earthquakes."
SUPER CAPTION: James Martin, U-S Military Medical Doctor
01 07 Apart from the growing problem with mental fatigue and stress, medical staff have been treating those with cholera, typhoid fever, malaria, hepatitis A and B, gangrene and other diseases caused poor sanitary conditions.
Thousands have been left homeless and are now living in tent cities.
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https://wn.com/El_Salvador_Earthquake_US_Doctors_(V)
(23 Feb 2001) Voice and effects
Voiced by Vera Frankl
XFA
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has appealed to donors for U-S 2.4 million dollars in emergency aid for farmers in earthquake-stricken El Salvador.
The funds would provide 20-thousand poor farmers in the Central American nation with 800 tons of seeds - maize, beans and vegetables - and fertilizers and tools, the Rome-based agency said.
There are also plan to repair damaged irrigation systems and farm infrastructure.
The appeal comes as medics struggle to cope with the ongoing health problems caused by the two powerful earthquakes that struck El Salvador on Jan. 13 and Feb. 13 killing more than one thousand two hundred people, and injuring at least eight thousand.
00 02 The victims of the two recent earthquakes are still arriving at makeshift hospitals throughout El Salvador.
00 08 This one in Candelaria is run by the U-S army
00 11 While some receive specialised medical treatment, others are waiting for more routine help.
All these people are forced to rely on free care being given by the aid agencies.
00 21 This woman says she doesn't have the means anymore to pay for a doctor's visit or to pay for medicine
00 28 FX 00 31
00 31 But the quakes have not only destroyed buildings and other material possessions.
00 36 They've left thousands of Salvadoreans struggling to come to terms with the enormity of the tragedy and the impact it's had on their lives.
00 44 SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Large turnout of people who needed both acute medical care, we provided a lot of veterinary services but the largest need appeared to be mental health services for stress management for people who had obvious mental ..uh.. were mentally affected by the affects of the earthquakes."
SUPER CAPTION: James Martin, U-S Military Medical Doctor
01 07 Apart from the growing problem with mental fatigue and stress, medical staff have been treating those with cholera, typhoid fever, malaria, hepatitis A and B, gangrene and other diseases caused poor sanitary conditions.
Thousands have been left homeless and are now living in tent cities.
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4:55
EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE: RESCUE
(14 Jan 2001) Spanish/Eng/Nat
XFA
The Central American earthquake death toll is rising.
In the confusion following Saturday's seven-point-six magnitude qua...
(14 Jan 2001) Spanish/Eng/Nat
XFA
The Central American earthquake death toll is rising.
In the confusion following Saturday's seven-point-six magnitude quake, officials gave varying accounts of the damage.
In El Salvador, official reports on Sunday said at least 120 people had died.
But the national police put the number of dead at more than 234, with another two- thousand injured.
These numbers are almost certain to increase substantially in the next few days.
The Red Cross said at least 12-hundred people were unaccounted for in the Las Colinas neighbourhood of Santa Tecla, about six miles (10 kilometers) west of the Salvadoran capital.
And the National Emergency Committee announced on Sunday that 10 people were missing across the country.
Two more people were reported dead in Guatemala.
But there were reports of dramatic rescues in the aftermath of the killer earthquake.
Rescuers in El Salvador managed to pull a 20-year-old woman free from the wreckage of a house in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Maria Antonia was the third person to be rescued alive after the earthquake triggered a massive landslide in Santa Tecla.
She was trapped in the bathroom of a house where she worked as a maid.
Firefighters worked for five hours to free her, hammering away concrete to create a narrow hole and feeding an I-V tube in a desperate effort to keep her alive.
She was finally pulled free of the rubble and rushed to a nearby hospital.
But hope is fading for the many others feared trapped under rubble.
By morning, 61 bodies had been recovered in Las Colinas.
Police said 16-thousand and 148 houses were damaged and four-thousand and 202 destroyed and reported damage to 87 churches and 39 other buildings.
The quake was centred off the Salvadorean coast, about 65 miles (105 kilometers) southwest of San Miguel, according to the U-S Geological Survey in Denver, Colorado.
A 1986 earthquake centred near San Salvador killed an estimated 15-hundred people and injured eight-thousand.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"This morning we had a meeting of all the priests in our city of Santa Tecla and in the middle of the meeting the earthquake hit. We ran out the door and as we were running out the door, the back wall of the meeting hall collapsed Fortunately no one was hurt. We got out into the streets and never having experienced an earthquake before it was a strange feeling to see the earth not moving but just throwing us from side to side and we were falling down."
SUPER CAPTION: Survivor, Peter Danaher, priest
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"We all have to rally together-everyone has been left with nothing We have no roof over our heads, and that's the biggest necessity of all."
SUPER CAPTION: Woman survivor
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"When I felt that it was moving like this in the car I got scared, and said hold me, hold me."
SUPER CAPTION: Child survivor
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https://wn.com/El_Salvador_Earthquake_Rescue
(14 Jan 2001) Spanish/Eng/Nat
XFA
The Central American earthquake death toll is rising.
In the confusion following Saturday's seven-point-six magnitude quake, officials gave varying accounts of the damage.
In El Salvador, official reports on Sunday said at least 120 people had died.
But the national police put the number of dead at more than 234, with another two- thousand injured.
These numbers are almost certain to increase substantially in the next few days.
The Red Cross said at least 12-hundred people were unaccounted for in the Las Colinas neighbourhood of Santa Tecla, about six miles (10 kilometers) west of the Salvadoran capital.
And the National Emergency Committee announced on Sunday that 10 people were missing across the country.
Two more people were reported dead in Guatemala.
But there were reports of dramatic rescues in the aftermath of the killer earthquake.
Rescuers in El Salvador managed to pull a 20-year-old woman free from the wreckage of a house in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Maria Antonia was the third person to be rescued alive after the earthquake triggered a massive landslide in Santa Tecla.
She was trapped in the bathroom of a house where she worked as a maid.
Firefighters worked for five hours to free her, hammering away concrete to create a narrow hole and feeding an I-V tube in a desperate effort to keep her alive.
She was finally pulled free of the rubble and rushed to a nearby hospital.
But hope is fading for the many others feared trapped under rubble.
By morning, 61 bodies had been recovered in Las Colinas.
Police said 16-thousand and 148 houses were damaged and four-thousand and 202 destroyed and reported damage to 87 churches and 39 other buildings.
The quake was centred off the Salvadorean coast, about 65 miles (105 kilometers) southwest of San Miguel, according to the U-S Geological Survey in Denver, Colorado.
A 1986 earthquake centred near San Salvador killed an estimated 15-hundred people and injured eight-thousand.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"This morning we had a meeting of all the priests in our city of Santa Tecla and in the middle of the meeting the earthquake hit. We ran out the door and as we were running out the door, the back wall of the meeting hall collapsed Fortunately no one was hurt. We got out into the streets and never having experienced an earthquake before it was a strange feeling to see the earth not moving but just throwing us from side to side and we were falling down."
SUPER CAPTION: Survivor, Peter Danaher, priest
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"We all have to rally together-everyone has been left with nothing We have no roof over our heads, and that's the biggest necessity of all."
SUPER CAPTION: Woman survivor
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"When I felt that it was moving like this in the car I got scared, and said hold me, hold me."
SUPER CAPTION: Child survivor
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3:08
EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE KILLS SEVENTY
(13 Feb 2001) Spanish/Nat
A powerful earthquake in El Salvador shook hundreds of buildings to the ground on Tuesday, killing at least 70 people in a country ...
(13 Feb 2001) Spanish/Nat
A powerful earthquake in El Salvador shook hundreds of buildings to the ground on Tuesday, killing at least 70 people in a country still in mourning from an even greater quake that killed hundreds a month before.
The U.S. Geological Survey measured the new quake at magnitude 6-point-6 and said it was centered near the midpoint between San Vicente and the capital, San Salvador.
The heart of San Vicente, 35 miles (55 kms) east of the capital was almost flattened by the new quake, which struck at 8:25 A-M local time (1425 GMT).
It also devastated the area around San Vicente, which had been less seriously damaged in the earlier quake.
Government emergency officials put the national death toll at 70, with 200 injured and hundreds if not thousands made homeless.
That added to the misery of a nation still struggling to cope with the aftermath of the 7.6-magnitude quake on January 13 that officials say killed 844, injured 4,723 and destroyed 278-thousand houses.
Hundreds more remain missing and are believed dead.
It was felt strongly because it was a shallow quake, centered below land rather than the sea.
A small aftershock struck as Salvadorean President Francisco Flores toured the local hospital, where hundreds of patients were sprawled on the floor or the ground outside for lack of beds.
In the capital, beds of patients were lined up in the streets as administrators waited for officials to inspect their buildings for quake damage.
The president said the brunt of the damage fell in the corridor between Ilopango, just east of San Salvador, and San Vicente.
The government sent students home across the country and evacuated most public buildings, including many hospitals, so they could be checked for possible damage.
San Salvador's airport also was briefly closed.
Landslides blocked several highways that were still being restored after the January quake.
Among those closed again was the Panamerican Highway to Guatemala.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
" My son was out gathering wood with his cousin. Oh my God, I hope you don't take my son."
SUPER CAPTION: Mother of victim
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https://wn.com/El_Salvador_Earthquake_Kills_Seventy
(13 Feb 2001) Spanish/Nat
A powerful earthquake in El Salvador shook hundreds of buildings to the ground on Tuesday, killing at least 70 people in a country still in mourning from an even greater quake that killed hundreds a month before.
The U.S. Geological Survey measured the new quake at magnitude 6-point-6 and said it was centered near the midpoint between San Vicente and the capital, San Salvador.
The heart of San Vicente, 35 miles (55 kms) east of the capital was almost flattened by the new quake, which struck at 8:25 A-M local time (1425 GMT).
It also devastated the area around San Vicente, which had been less seriously damaged in the earlier quake.
Government emergency officials put the national death toll at 70, with 200 injured and hundreds if not thousands made homeless.
That added to the misery of a nation still struggling to cope with the aftermath of the 7.6-magnitude quake on January 13 that officials say killed 844, injured 4,723 and destroyed 278-thousand houses.
Hundreds more remain missing and are believed dead.
It was felt strongly because it was a shallow quake, centered below land rather than the sea.
A small aftershock struck as Salvadorean President Francisco Flores toured the local hospital, where hundreds of patients were sprawled on the floor or the ground outside for lack of beds.
In the capital, beds of patients were lined up in the streets as administrators waited for officials to inspect their buildings for quake damage.
The president said the brunt of the damage fell in the corridor between Ilopango, just east of San Salvador, and San Vicente.
The government sent students home across the country and evacuated most public buildings, including many hospitals, so they could be checked for possible damage.
San Salvador's airport also was briefly closed.
Landslides blocked several highways that were still being restored after the January quake.
Among those closed again was the Panamerican Highway to Guatemala.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
" My son was out gathering wood with his cousin. Oh my God, I hope you don't take my son."
SUPER CAPTION: Mother of victim
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2:29
EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE LATEST
(18 Feb 2001) Spanish/Nat
XFA
The ground keeps shaking, the buildings constantly shudder.
And Salvadorans can barely stand it.
Two massive earthquakes ...
(18 Feb 2001) Spanish/Nat
XFA
The ground keeps shaking, the buildings constantly shudder.
And Salvadorans can barely stand it.
Two massive earthquakes that killed more than 12-hundred people have been accompanied by thousands of smaller jolts - sending people fleeing in panic to the streets day after day.
While by some account more than a million are homeless, even many of the fortunate are nervous wrecks.
Many of those with undamaged homes are sleeping on the street, too traumatized to be under a roof.
A Military hospital psychologist said the entire country is in a state of anxiety -- many are suffering from facial paralysis, ticks, skin problems, diarrhea, sleeplessness, stomach pains.
She tended to more than 80 people on Saturday after a moderate but sharp earthquake terrified the capital.
Her colleagues treated more than 500 people.
Scores of others arrived at public hospitals and clinics asking for tranquilizers.
A government hospital pharmacist said they have had to turn people away because they are worried people will start getting addicted.
Health workers themselves are at the breaking point after tending to the injured, witnessing the destruction and sleeping with a rocking ground night after night.
Crowds of people, some weeping, ran into the streets after a 5.3 magnitude quake hit with a sudden thud at about 2:25 p.m. local time on Saturday.
After a magnitude 7.6 quake on January 13th killed at least 844 people, some started to grow accustomed to aftershocks, which were gradually decreasing.
But a magnitude 6.6 quake on February 13th killed more than 400 people and restored the fear that gripped people at the first quiver of any quake.
Seismologists have recorded nearly 4-thousand nearby quakes or aftershocks since the January 13th quake.
Several have surpassed magnitude 5.
The government reported one death and three injuries from Saturday's jolt, but it destroyed the last shreds of calm that some possessed.
The capital was quiet Saturday night, its discos nearly empty.
Many people set up beds in the street, in fear that their houses would fall on top of them.
SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
"Let's ask the Lord for this danger for the country and especially for the capital, where we are feeling these tremors, to end."
SUPERCAPTION: Fernando Saenz Lacalle, Archbishop of San Salvador
SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
"(God) had a special predilection for me because I was inside the rubble and I was rescued and that's why I'm here, telling people my story, accompanying them and praying for them and the people of many other villages that are in the same situation here in El Salvador."
SUPERCAPTION: Father Salvador Interiano, Candelaria priest
SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
"After celebrating mass, he used to have dinner and watch the news before going back to his room, but after the second earthquake he only goes to hospital, we bring his food to his bedroom and he doesn't want to get out anymore."
SUPERCAPTION: Sor Maria Socorro
SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
"When the earthquake happened, the father fell on the floor and a wall fell over him"
SUPERCAPTION: William Nelson Mancilla, witness
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https://wn.com/El_Salvador_Earthquake_Latest
(18 Feb 2001) Spanish/Nat
XFA
The ground keeps shaking, the buildings constantly shudder.
And Salvadorans can barely stand it.
Two massive earthquakes that killed more than 12-hundred people have been accompanied by thousands of smaller jolts - sending people fleeing in panic to the streets day after day.
While by some account more than a million are homeless, even many of the fortunate are nervous wrecks.
Many of those with undamaged homes are sleeping on the street, too traumatized to be under a roof.
A Military hospital psychologist said the entire country is in a state of anxiety -- many are suffering from facial paralysis, ticks, skin problems, diarrhea, sleeplessness, stomach pains.
She tended to more than 80 people on Saturday after a moderate but sharp earthquake terrified the capital.
Her colleagues treated more than 500 people.
Scores of others arrived at public hospitals and clinics asking for tranquilizers.
A government hospital pharmacist said they have had to turn people away because they are worried people will start getting addicted.
Health workers themselves are at the breaking point after tending to the injured, witnessing the destruction and sleeping with a rocking ground night after night.
Crowds of people, some weeping, ran into the streets after a 5.3 magnitude quake hit with a sudden thud at about 2:25 p.m. local time on Saturday.
After a magnitude 7.6 quake on January 13th killed at least 844 people, some started to grow accustomed to aftershocks, which were gradually decreasing.
But a magnitude 6.6 quake on February 13th killed more than 400 people and restored the fear that gripped people at the first quiver of any quake.
Seismologists have recorded nearly 4-thousand nearby quakes or aftershocks since the January 13th quake.
Several have surpassed magnitude 5.
The government reported one death and three injuries from Saturday's jolt, but it destroyed the last shreds of calm that some possessed.
The capital was quiet Saturday night, its discos nearly empty.
Many people set up beds in the street, in fear that their houses would fall on top of them.
SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
"Let's ask the Lord for this danger for the country and especially for the capital, where we are feeling these tremors, to end."
SUPERCAPTION: Fernando Saenz Lacalle, Archbishop of San Salvador
SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
"(God) had a special predilection for me because I was inside the rubble and I was rescued and that's why I'm here, telling people my story, accompanying them and praying for them and the people of many other villages that are in the same situation here in El Salvador."
SUPERCAPTION: Father Salvador Interiano, Candelaria priest
SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
"After celebrating mass, he used to have dinner and watch the news before going back to his room, but after the second earthquake he only goes to hospital, we bring his food to his bedroom and he doesn't want to get out anymore."
SUPERCAPTION: Sor Maria Socorro
SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
"When the earthquake happened, the father fell on the floor and a wall fell over him"
SUPERCAPTION: William Nelson Mancilla, witness
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2:48
EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH: AID
(21 Feb 2001) Natural Sound
After three major earthquakes in one month, the people of El Salvador are in desperate need of aid.
People are finding it ne...
(21 Feb 2001) Natural Sound
After three major earthquakes in one month, the people of El Salvador are in desperate need of aid.
People are finding it nearly impossible to cope with the series of quakes which have devastated their homes and families.
The government is finding it difficult to accommodate the thousands of people who are begging for help.
Local mayors, who are in charge of the aid distribution, have been attacked by desperate people who are struggling to live on very limited supplies of food and water and with inadequate shelter.
Psychological problems and a major wave of emigration are also adding to the desperation.
Many of the people from these devastated regions want to leave El Salvador and go to the U-S, but they are also looking at other destinations.
However, international help is at a minimum and Salvador's officials are warning of donor fatigue, saying people's attention has turned elsewhere before they have received sufficient funds and aid for those effected.
Only the Mexican, Venezuelan, U-S and Spanish governments are still helping.
The government says it needs three (b) billion (US) dollars to get the country back on its feet.
SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
"We need nourishment, we don't have anything, we are poor. We have to chase trucks to beg them for water. We are dying of thirst, we can't drink contaminated water from the river."
SUPER CAPTION: Jose Mario Cuellar, Victim
SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
"The rich nations should have gone all the way, they have sufficient, because Venezuela is not a rich country, it has its natural resources, but we have our own problems. (cutaway) Let the international community help this nation, it has great needs, devastation, it can feed itself and it needs to recuperate."
SUPER CAPTION: Solis Martinez, Venezuelan Ambassador to El Salvador
SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
"All governments from around the world should contribute a grain of sand and support each little town. That would be a fantastic help to this country."
SUPER CAPTION: Roberto Rivera, San Vicente citizen
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https://wn.com/El_Salvador_Earthquake_Aftermath_Aid
(21 Feb 2001) Natural Sound
After three major earthquakes in one month, the people of El Salvador are in desperate need of aid.
People are finding it nearly impossible to cope with the series of quakes which have devastated their homes and families.
The government is finding it difficult to accommodate the thousands of people who are begging for help.
Local mayors, who are in charge of the aid distribution, have been attacked by desperate people who are struggling to live on very limited supplies of food and water and with inadequate shelter.
Psychological problems and a major wave of emigration are also adding to the desperation.
Many of the people from these devastated regions want to leave El Salvador and go to the U-S, but they are also looking at other destinations.
However, international help is at a minimum and Salvador's officials are warning of donor fatigue, saying people's attention has turned elsewhere before they have received sufficient funds and aid for those effected.
Only the Mexican, Venezuelan, U-S and Spanish governments are still helping.
The government says it needs three (b) billion (US) dollars to get the country back on its feet.
SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
"We need nourishment, we don't have anything, we are poor. We have to chase trucks to beg them for water. We are dying of thirst, we can't drink contaminated water from the river."
SUPER CAPTION: Jose Mario Cuellar, Victim
SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
"The rich nations should have gone all the way, they have sufficient, because Venezuela is not a rich country, it has its natural resources, but we have our own problems. (cutaway) Let the international community help this nation, it has great needs, devastation, it can feed itself and it needs to recuperate."
SUPER CAPTION: Solis Martinez, Venezuelan Ambassador to El Salvador
SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
"All governments from around the world should contribute a grain of sand and support each little town. That would be a fantastic help to this country."
SUPER CAPTION: Roberto Rivera, San Vicente citizen
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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