Lorca and the first 4.5 earthquake.
Lorca and the second 5.2 earthquake.
No one has heard from Lorca.
Lorca was always an underachiever.
It seems Captain Lorca is moving against me.
Earthquake Lorca: Earthquake preparedness attitude might have
saved some lives.
Lorca's mayor continues to say that at least
5 people are dead.
Authorities did all what they could to help the unfortunate Lorca people.
Example: Lorca Spain 2011:
All people who got killed, were killed by falling objects.
Click here to read our in-depth article"Understanding the Lorca, Spain May 11 2011 earthquake".
Lorca preferred to perform his poems and plays,
and his histrionic recitations drew innumerable admirers.
In 1915, after graduating from secondary school, García Lorca attended the University of Granada.
I hope that people of Lorca can somehow cope with this awful act of god.
UPDATE 19:42 UTC: An experience from a nurse in Lorca,"The roof of the hospital dropped.
Falling debris has caused
at least some people being killed in Lorca(based on many early media reports).
Lorca experienced 2 machine recorded aftershocks with a 1.6 magnitude,
almost to weak to even feel it.
UPDATE 16:59 UTC: Lorca has called the state of emergency in the city
following some Spanish sources.
UPDATE 18:52 UTC:
Pictures show much debris scattering the streets of Lorca, where seven people are confirmed dead.
Lorca's two most successful poetry collections were Canciones(Songs),
published in 1927, and Romancero gitano(the Gypsy Ballads), published in 1928.
UPDATE 20:23 UTC:
The Spanish government has promised today that all necessary means will be deployed to reconstruct Lorca.
UPDATE 06:22 UTC: Thousands of Lorca citizens spend the night outside overwhelmed by the earthquake and the aftershocks.
UPDATE 05:02 UTC: 20,000 to 30,000 people do not want to return to their houses,
the mayor or Lorca said.
UPDATE 22:39 UTC:
Cartagena Red Cross has send an surgery and emergency group to Lorca to assist with the relief operations.
UPDATE 06:10 UTC: Based
on what we have seen on some video's, the"earthquake preparedness" attitude of the people in Lorca was"minimal".
UPDATE 20:45 UTC: The mayor of Lorca has asked for support in the form of food,
water and shelter supplies(mattresses and blankets).
UPDATE 09:53 UTC: At the moment of writing,
the funeral of the some of the earthquake victims is going on in Lorca.
A moderate but
very shallow earthquake occurred in the late afternoon near the city of Lorca and 55 km from Murcia in Spain.
Luis Buñuel watches helplessly as the friendship between surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and
the poet Federico García Lorca develops into a love affair.
From Langston Hughes to Jack Kerouac and Federico García Lorca- so many-
verse once served as a vehicle for expressing social and political dissent.