Monday, November 20, 2006

Earthquake in Peru

Something REALLY weird happened today!!! Nigel and I were just sitting in a restaurant having breakfast when the whole place starts shaking, the paint comes off the ceiling and the people around us start screaming hysterically! It only lasted for about 5 seconds and at the time we didn´t even realized what had just happened. We just sat there looking at each other not knowing what´s going on. Must have looked reeally odd!
I found out by a local that it was an earthquake, apparently 5.8 on the Richter scale. The epicentre was somewhere between Arequipa (where we are now) and Tacna (where we´ll be heading to next)
I didn´t even know they have earthquakes that strong in Peru. Pretty crazy experience!

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