Venezuela Double Earthquakes

 

Hi Everyone!

Thank heavens I am doing well. It has been a very sad and heartbreaking past few days, and sincerely, I didn´t know how to find the right words to publish first because I was in shock with everything that happened. I live in Carabobo State, where one of the two earthquakes happened. That was around  18:00 hours when I was coming back from the park, and I noticed something weird on the floor. I was on the sidewalk walking back home when the pavement was moving. I decided to cross the street because I was worried about the trees and the electrical wires. 

The movement was more than one minute, and the movement kept going. Everything lasted around almost three minutes. Thank God I was safe, and when I returned home, everything was there. I tried to call my mom, but the communication was not working, at least for a couple of hours. And in the initial moments, I didn't know about the magnitude of the Earthquake or the devastation in other places.

But when the internet and communication returned was when I started to see all the destruction. And that was not one but 2 eartquakes with a difference of 39 seconds, and for that reason I felt these earthquakes like one. The magnitudes were 7.1 and 7.5, and the most devastated places were La Guaira, Caracas, Tucacas, Moron, and Aragua. Here in my city, there are some buildings that are seriously damaged, and now the people don´t know what to do. 

I feel blessed because I am fine and my family is well. But the replicas have been constant, and I must confess I have felt scared. Just today, I was sleeping when I felt another replica around 4.2, which was sincerely complicated because I have not been able to sleep well these days. 

Thank you so much to each person who has taken a moment to ask me about how I am doing in these moments, so sad that we are living right now. Nobody is prepared for a situation like this. Life is so fragile and precious, and I feel blessed for each moment. And now I am going to appreciate living more. My best wishes and blessings to you.

Bye Bye!!