Word: huascar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here Mrs. Nixon switched to the President's helicopter, Marine Corps One, to survey the damaged area. In the chopper, she hovered over tents arrayed below. In the background was the mighty Huascarán mountain, 22,000 feet high, from which the avalanche of ice and debris shaken loose by the quake had descended upon the villages. Observing the remnants of the town of Yungay, Mrs. Nixon said: "The mud is beginning to recede now. Eventually they will find the bodies...
...houses had been toppled. As the hours wore on, however, alarming reports began to arrive from the northern departments. The seaport of Chimbote lay in ruins. The departmental capital of Huarás was practically destroyed. The beautiful resort city of Yungay, at the foot of towering Mount Huascarán, all but disappeared, like a modern Pompeii, beneath a layer of mud. When the government distributed an aerial photograph of the morass, the picture had to be labeled "Aqui estuvo Yungay" -Yungay was here. From the air, nothing was visible but the tops of four palm trees that...
...have survived-those of us who reached the higher areas before the huayco hit us. We had been terrified by the quake, and most of us were praying in the streets amid the wreckage of our city when we heard the infernal thunder of the huayco coming down from Huascarán. For God's sake, send us help. We have no medicine, no food. We have sent some men to one of the lakes for water; we are praying that they return today. All night the women have cried and prayed; some men were cursing, raising their fists...
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