Earthquake in Peru - August 15th, 2007

In this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AnwwZit1c8
you will find a song dedicated to the people who suffered in the earthquake.

My name is Daniel and I live in Lima, Peru. I was at work when the earthquake started, this video is from the earthquake. It was horrible, everything was shaking violently, it was like being on a boat in the middle of the sea, things started falling down. An alarm went off and the longer it lasted, the harder it was to remain calm, I've never been through anything like this ever in my life.
I would also like to mention that we need your help. The earthquakes we have had have caused masive destruction, specially near the the south of the capital where 80% of the population has been left homeless, not to mention 400 dead and thousands of injured people. These people need water, food and something to stay warm, please contact any organization you know of to learn how you can help.

Daniel

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• peru
• earthquake
• terremoto
• news
• 2007
• 15
• August
• perú

[Sandguy99]

The damn siren is worse than the quake.

[FloorAvenueDiary]

Yea my parents are Peruvian and they kept calling Peru to see if my family was ok, but either the lines were blocked or the lines were down. Horrible, but my family was ok. My heart goes out for everyone who was killed or hurt physically or emotionally. <3 Peru

[NaixforMayor]

@AnimationAnimater12 What the hell is wrong with you. How can you even say something like that?

[alxbask321]

@AnimationAnimater12 i'm an american and i was there. this was not fake, and thousands of people were killed and injured. how dare you.

[OfficialRaqelZegarra]

@Sandguy99 Imagine all the sirens near that place in the coast screaming as loud as that one. It was very hard to remain calm, especially since some weird white lights illuminated the nightsky all of a sudden, and there were crazy people who started to scream, 'APOCALIPSES!! IT'S THE END; REPEL!!!' lol It was freaky I wish I had never gone through something like that...

[LuisMayo120]

@AnimationAnimater12  FUck you u piece of shit.

[TheCHRISAUSSIE]

i left like 5 days before this happened =/ but almost every1 in my family had to go through this!

[x0ticShwty]

my mom was down there when that happned, thank god she was outside..

[Gollumnova]

Peru es un pais demasiado abituado a los sismos, mas no a los Terremotos,

debido a esa "ausencia" de miedo fue q' la gente no se puso a salvo durante el primer minuto del sismo q' fue de baja intensidad,

durante el segundo minuto de magnitud increible ya era demasiado tarde, el terremoto cobrò la vida de mas de 500 personas ...

†

[bro987]

I'm not going to lie, I was in the 5th floor of an apartment building visiting a cousin of mine's apartment complex she owns and I thought if this building collapses, then I'm going to die. I was in Lima by the way.

[ABTE67]

de la puta madre

[JehovahSaveUs]

I live in So.Cal and I know what it is like being through big earthquakes. Granted we are lucky that our quakes only last seconds, but when you have been through 6.5 and 7.1 (Big Bear/Landers Quakes of 92) every second you wonder if this is it. It is very scary.