Eathquake

The last bay area’s earthquake had as epicenter the piedmont area just a few blocks from west Oakland where I live and only eight miles deep from the superficies, which is very close in term of seismology; Moreover, we know that we live in a time’s bomb or potentially dangerous seismic area and i

I had been visiting my relatives in a city called Popayan, a middle city around two hundred people of population, which is known as the “white city” because the architecture of their buildings conserves the details of the colonial époque when the Spanish used this city as a rest area in their travel from Cartagena at the north to Quito (Ecuador) and Lima (Peru) at the south

There were almost three hundred people who died principally inside of the churches. I consider my self fortunate to survive, but the experience changed my mind; I realized that in the pain, when people are suffering from a tragedy the solidarity comes to remind us that no matter what race, sex, beliefs or economical conditions, we are all equals.

Twenty years ago in March of 1983 I was living in Colombia, my native country, I survived a 6.1° in the Richter scale earthquake; the Richter scale has 8.0 as the top for the strongest earthquakes and 6.3 is considered strong; however, this scale don’t express the mag

Some topics in this essay:
Eighteen Terror, Semana Santa, Lima Peru, hundred people, richter scale,