(9 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palin, Guatemala - 9 July 2025
1. Wide of building damaged by earthquake, residents and police inspecting damage
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Saulo Barrios López, local resident:
++PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS 1 AND 3++
"We were there. There were other friends sitting with me there where the piece of land (debris) fell. And on this side, a piece of land (debris) fell on a lady here, you see, on her shoulder, and a young man who was there also took her away. Well, like everyone, right, we ran out and everything. We went home and from there we were mostly worried, right? That it wouldn't keep shaking because it shook again later."
3. Mid of damage and debris on street
4. Residents gathered in street with blankets following earthquake
5. Residents wrapped in blankets
6. Wide of residents sorting through belongings
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Elvia Moratel, local resident:
++COVERED BY SHOT 6++
"We live here one block away. All the houses cracked."
8. Mid of damaged building
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Elvia Moratel, local resident:
++PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOT 8++
"Our home, from bottom to top, is completely damaged. So, you can't stay there anymore."
10. Residents wrapped in blankets
STORYLINE:
A series of dozens of earthquakes were recorded in the span of hours in Guatemala, leaving two dead when rocks fell on their vehicle, authorities said.
Landslides left several others buried.
In the southern town of Palin, residents were forced to spend the night in makeshift camps following the destruction of homes in the town.
"Our home, from bottom to top, is completely damaged. So, you can't stay there anymore," said Elvia Moratel, a Palin resident who was forced to spend the night outside.
More than 37 earthquakes and aftershocks with magnitudes ranging from 3.0 to 5.6 were reported in Guatemala Tuesday afternoon, said Edwin Rodas, director of the National Institute for Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology.
The tremors resulted in the evacuation of buildings, landslides, and minor property damage, officials said, adding they were felt as far away as El Salvador.
The two men killed were traveling in a pickup truck on a local road in the department of Escuintla when the rocks fell from a hillside onto the vehicle, firefighters said.
Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo said at a press conference Tuesday that the main epicenter of the quakes was in the department of Sacatepéquez, with aftershocks in the regions of Escuintla and Guatemala department.
AP video shot by: Moisés Castillo
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