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A 7.1 scale earthquake has hit Honduras. Janpedrano [es] writes about communicating with friends and family around the country through internet, SMS, and telephone making sure that they were alright.
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The main channels in the US are not reporting this disaster. How is the coast? does anybody know? Thank you.
All in all, it wasn’t that serious, thank God. I wrote a summary from the newspaper and TV reports here:
http://lagringasblogicito.blogspot.com/2009/05/terremoto-71-earthquake-in-honduras.html