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Monday, October 19, 1992
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Scores injured as second earthquake hits Colombia
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BOGOTA, Colombia — The second severe earthquake to hit Colombia in two days rocked cities yesterday and set off an eruption at thermal baths in the northwest, burying a house in mud and raining burning rock on villagers.
Four people were missing and feared dead, and scores were injured after mud and steam blasted from a mountain near the baths at San Pedro de Uraba, 124 miles northwest of Medellin, town officials said.
Two other people were reported killed elsewhere in the South American country. Early radio reports of 10 deaths could not be confirmed.
The quake measured 7.2 on the Richter scale, but only minimal damage was reported in most of the country.
At the same time, 1,500-foot Cacaqueal Mountain near San Pedro erupted.
It could not immediately be determined whether the eruption was volcanic, as some initial reports said, or thermal. Before the eruption, the mountain had oozed mud and steam, which formed pools inside its base and attracted bathers.
In Bogota, the capital city of 6 million, and in Medellin, a city of 3 million, people ran out of shaking buildings into the streets. Traffic lights swung wildly.
Local radio reported that man of those injured may have been bathers.
"The lamps were swinging from the ceiling and some of the pictures fell off the walls," an employee of Bogota's Tequendama Hotel told Crypton television news.
Preliminary findings by the Seismic Institute in Cali, Colombia, said the quake lasted two minutes and was centered about 185 miles northwest of Bogota — in the same area as Saturday's earthquake, which measured 6.6 on the Richter scale.
The Red Cross said a child was killed when a school building collapsed in the northwestern village of Vigia del Fuente, 100 miles from Medellin, and a woman died of a heart attack in the southern city of Pereira.
San Pedro Mayor Alcides Caballero said 37 people were injured, most suffering from second-degree burns. Some were transferred to regional hospitals.
Seven houses burned to the ground, he said. Nelson Poveda, an official at the mayor's office, said the quake
cracked roads and cut off traffic to and from town.
In Bogota, people were still mulling in the street two hours after the quake, clutching their belongings, afraid to return home.
Aftershocks, registering up to 5.5 on the Richter scale, rippled through the country hours later, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The quake was felt from the north Caribbean Coast south to the Amazon River, according to RCN radio.
The earthquake Saturday partially destroyed the fishing village of Murido, 90 miles northwest of Medellin. No deaths or injuries were reported, but as many as 500 people were left homeless and the medical clinic was severely damaged, Gov. Juan Gomez said.
Hans Meyer at the U.S. Geological Survey said Colombia should be prepared for more aftershocks in the coming days and weeks.
The Richter scale is a gauge of energy released by an earthquake, as measured by the ground motion recorded on a seismograph. Every increase of one number means the ground motion is 10 times greater. A quake of magnitude 7 can cause widespread, heavy damage.
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The earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale, was centered a few miles south of Egypt's main tourist attractions, the Sphinx and Giza pyramids.
Felt throughout Egypt and as far away as Jerusalem, the quake left almost 550 people dead and more than 6,000
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Initial estimates placed the number of damaged monuments below 50. Most of the damage was thought to have affected ancient Islamic sites in the Caro area. But updated figures released yesterday showed damage to more than 150 ancient monuments throughout the country.
The Oct. 12 quake caused cracks in some of the country's top attractions. These include the Valley of the Kings, the burial site of Tutankhamun, and Queen Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el-Babri in the south from the 15th century B.C., said Ibrahim Bakr, chairperson of Egypt's Antiquities Organization.
CAIRO, Egypt — Last week's earthquake caused greater damage to Egypt's monuments than previously thought, including the rich store of Pharaonic relics at Luxor in southern Egypt, the country's top antiquities official said yesterday.
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injured. It destroyed or damaged hundreds of buildings in Cairo.
Only a few stones fell from the Giza pyramids, and Bakr said the Sphinx seemingly suffered no damage. He said that most damage to the Pharaonic monuments was minimal and that none of the monuments is closed to tourists.
But surveys now show the quake hit other regions rich with antiquities, such as Luxor, which was thought earlier to have been spared.
Many of the damaged structures already were weakened first by ancient earthquakes, then by natural and manmade pollution.
Old Cairo, with its early Coptic Christian churches, a Jewish cemetery and Roman walls;
Bakr said damage was located or suspected at three important antiquities sites:
Cairo's ancient Islamic quarter, the largest trove of standing Islamic monuments, where 30 mosques were critically damaged;
Luxor, southern Egypt's tourist capital and the site of the ancient capital Thebes.
Bakr said Egypt lacks the expertise and money to tackle repairs that could take 20 years or more. He estimated the initial repair cost at $63 million and appealed for international technical and financial help.
"These monuments belong not only to Egypt but are a world heritage," Bakr said. "The world has helped Egypt in the past to save its monuments. We hope the world will do it again."
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