Aftermath from quake zone, reax, hospital, islands
El Progreso
1. Wide of street with cracked road and people walking by
2.
Close of cracked pavement
3. Wide of house and street with cracks
4. Pan of ground
5.
Huge crack in bridge
6.
Various of damaged remains of "
Democracy Bridge"
7.
Lamp posts and electricity lines in water
8. Pan of bridge
9. SOUNDBITE (
Spanish)
Miguel Sanchez, chief officer of
Yoro police department
"A wall in a supermarket, and in this area we have six homes in which people were injured".
(
Question: Any casualties?)
"No, we only had two infants (injured), who thank God are already out of danger."
San Pedro Sula
10. Various exteriors or hospital where earthquake victims
11. Hallway inside hospital
12.
Crack in wall inside hospital left by quake
13. Various of injured patients inside hospital
14.
Woman being examined
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
Vox Pop, injured woman:
"I was sleeping when I felt the shaking and I said, what is this? I got up to go outside but I couldn't. When I stood up I fell down, and when I fell down the guy told me to get out, and as I was trying to get out the wall collapsed on my foot."
16.
Cars driving along San Pedro Sula street
Roatan
17. Wide of island
18. Various of beach
19. Various of tourists on beach
20. SOUNDBITE (
English)
Matt Withelee,
Tourist:
"We been through the pig flu in
Mexico so this is something else but is lovely here. There's been no problems today so we're still enjoying ourselves, we'll stay here for a couple of days and then move on."
21. Withelee and girlfriend walking off down beach
22.
Sign for local dive shop
23. Man fishing
24. SOUNDBITE (English)
Marvin Reyes,
Diving instructor:
"I think in retrospect, I think now we would we prepared in the future but last night I don't think much people was prepare for a tsunami."
25. Marvin talking to colleagues
STORYLINE
A powerful earthquake toppled dozens of homes in
Honduras and
Belize early on Thursday, killing at least six people and injuring 40 as terrified residents spilled from their homes across much of
Central America.
The magnitude-7.1 quake struck at 0224 local time (0424
EDT/ 0824
GMT) at a relatively shallow depth of six miles (
10 kilometres), according to the
US Geological Survey in
Golden, Colorado.
The epicentre was 80 miles (130 kilometres) northeast of
La Ceiba in Honduras.
The earthquake destroyed at least 57 homes and damaged another 65 in Honduras.
Fourteen schools were damaged, as were two
Roman Catholic churches and three bridges
.
In the town of El Progreso, the Democracy Bridge spanning the Ulua river, the country's largest waterway, collapsed.
One of its sections was missing and long jagged cracks could be seen in the road.
The bridge connects the northern city of
San Pedro Sula, Honduras' second largest, with the rest of the country.
The second bridge was deemed safe.
The judicial offices in San Pedro Sula were also damaged in the quake.
The town was scheduled to host a summit of foreign ministers of the
Organisation of American States next week but there was no immediate indication that the event would be affected.
Closest to the epicentre were the idyllic islands of Roatan and
Utila, where officials and hotel employees said there were no injuries or major damage.
A tsunami watch was cancelled for Honduras, Belize and
Guatemala when no unusual waves appeared.
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