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Update on Powerful Earthquake
St. Lucians Panick
Castries, St. Lucia - November 30, 2007 -
ST. LUCIANS panicked and run from their homes and work places into the streets, screaming in fear when the 238 square mile (616km) island of St. Lucia was rocked by a powerful earthquake on Thursday afternoon, at exactly 3:00 p.m.
"Ithought it would never stop. It was easily the scariest thing I ever experienced," said a Castries school teacher, as she told of attempting to wait out the earthquake in a phone booth where she had been making a call.
Throughout the island there were reports of people fleeing their homes to gather on streets outside, even as buildings rattled from the fury of the quake. Some said the rumblings lasted well over two minutes.
Businesses were immediately closed and staff sent home for the day.
For many elderly people, it was the biggest tremor they had ever experienced. "In all my years, I have never felt any thing as powerful as this one, and it lasted such a long time," said a Water Works resident, who is still mentally alert nearing her 101st birthday.
In the capital, Castries, there were reports of buildings swaying from side to side but not toppling. Others reported the ground shifting under their feet.
Initial reports were that several buildings throughout the island, especially in the north, were damaged in the quake. In Castries, there were reports of a glass door of a business house being shattered by the rumbling.
But there eas no doubt that Thursday's quake was the strongest experienced in this country for some considerable time, not only for its magnitude but its duration as well.
The island's major financial institution, Bank of St. Lucia (also known as Eastern Caribbean Financial Holdings - ECFH), which is some six stories high, reported of staff panicking, some of whom who suffered with ashma and having to be treated by a doctor who was on hand at the time, and having to be sent home.
The National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) said the quake measured 7.3, and said that the last time St. Lucia felt such a tremor of that magnitude was in the mid-1950s, adding that the quake was the biggest to be recorded in the Eastern Caribbean "in historic times"
Lawrence James
Journalist
St. Lucia Mirror
