:( Sad news. There was a horrible earthquake in Peru today. It's so hard, cause it's an area I know now. It was a magnitude 8 (WOW!!!) earthquake centered in Ica and Pisco. There were something like 11 earthquakes after ranging from 5-6.3, which is already a big earthquake! Pisco is where the alcohol pisco is made, the national drink of Peru. Pisco is...was, a lovely little town surrounded by vineyards. Ica is a larger town in the middle of the desert. This is the oasis of Huacachina right outside Ica.
There's something like 510 dead so far. There were 200 buried in a church where they were attending a mass for a Pisco man that had died a month before. This is that church...not much of it left.
A man outside his home in Pisco. Now just rubble. Something like 70% of this town of 68,000 residents was destroyed.
There's something like 510 dead so far. There were 200 buried in a church where they were attending a mass for a Pisco man that had died a month before. This is that church...not much of it left.
A man outside his home in Pisco. Now just rubble. Something like 70% of this town of 68,000 residents was destroyed.This is the Pan American Highway...we drove along this stretch! My thoughts are with everyone in the area. I loved Peru...and it's always just so weird to see somewhere you recently were in the news like that. 
510 people. Wow, that's a lot. Magnitude 8 earthquakes only happen every 5-10 years and usually devastates more than one community near the epicenter. The scale only goes to 8 and is considered total destruction...on the Richter scale.
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