The report of the series of earthquakes that hit Guatemala yesterday Tuesday became heavier, reaching the four dead yesterday Wednesday, after the corpse of the adolescent corpse, which was buried due to landslide.

The most powerful earthquakes, on Tuesday afternoon (local time), ranged From 4.8 to 5.7 pointswith the focus on the communities Amatitlan and Alotenangonear the capital of the country of Central America, according to the US Institute of Geological Research (USGS).

According to the Coordination Service for CONRED Disaster Disaster, victims’ report increased after finding a teenager corpse in Santa Maria De Hessus (southwest), the area affected harder than seismic activity.

A few hours earlier, the president Bernardo Arevalo It announced via a X report referring to three dead – two men, the vehicle they were aboard was cut off by rocks, as well as a woman killed by a building collapse in her village.

In her latest report, Conred also said that there were hundreds of earthquakes, as dozens of homes were damaged, as well as roads and bridge.

Mr. Arevalo suspended schools and declared a holiday on Wednesday In the three prefectures most affected by the capital (centrally), the Eskuidla (south) and the Crumbs (southwest).

After the first earthquake, which was recorded around 15:00 (local time; midnight on Tuesday to Wednesday Greek), followed others nearly 200among them some twenty that became sensible by the population, according to the country’s seismology institute.

Hundreds of people crossed the streets at night, open spaces and parks, because of the fear that strong aftershocks would be marked.

OR Carmen49 years old, forced to sleep out, with her family, at Palinabout 35 kilometers south of the capital, the city of Guatemala. Earthquakes of the previous one were ‘Very strong’explained to the French Agency.

To Santa Maria De Hessus; 50% of homes suffered damageamong them historical, preserved buildings, according to the mayor Mario Peres. His city has no electricitywhile almost excluded from the world due to landslides on roads, he added.

President Arevalo went to this city, mostly indigenous population, by helicopter, to see the damage with his eyes. “Know how we work nonstop for the security of the whole population”stressed via x, expressing the “Deeper condolences to the families of those who lost their lives.”

Central America is an area with high seismicity, as the caribbean and cocoa tectonic plates intersect on the subsoil and there are several geological cracks.