Making Peace with Temblors
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
EARTHQUAKE, earthquake…!” echoed shouts from mosque loudspeakers and by word of mouth. Panic spread to the highways when hundreds of residents got together and ran in one direction.
The sound of the sirens was deafening. In the classes of a religious secondary school, the students, shielding their heads with school bags, started diving below the rumbling school desks.
A few moments later, hundreds of schoolchildren were running out of the
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