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Some reports said... Email Print Related News Spain's jobless voters could turn against Socialists 5:14am EDT Reaction to death of Seve Ballesteros Sat, May 7 2011 NY mayor unveils $66 billion budget, expects layoffs Fri, May 6 2011 Earthquake rattles Mexico City, buildings shake Thu, May 5 2011 Saudi interests in bid for German refinery-report Wed, May 4 2011 Analysis & Opinion The East German puppet pulls the Soviet strings Violent Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram rejects amnesty offer Related Topics World » Natural Disasters » Related Video Earthquake rocks Spanish town 8:19pm EDT By Emma Pinedo and Paul Day MADRID | Wed May 11, 2011 4:43pm EDT MADRID (Reuters) - A rare earthquake rocked an ancient town in southeastern Spain on Wednesday causing houses to collapse, damaging historic churches and public buildings and killing at least 10 people. Some reports said that the 5.3 magnitude earthquake sent tremors through the popular touristic region of Murcia and had affected a nursing home and the tower of an important church in the town of Lorca, which is dependent on farming. "The population is scared and are very afraid to return to their homes. The whole of the center of Lorca has been seriously damaged," a delegate from the central government in Murcia told national radio. "There are thousands of very disorientated people." Television images showed shaken families and children gathering in a square in the town, seeking safety from fallen buildings as masonry and rubble blanketed streets. Part of the front of a badly damaged church in the small town collapsed hours after the quake, narrowly missing a television reporter while filing a live report. "We were just sat here and everything began to move, pictures fell from the wall, the TV fell and (the quake) went on for ages. We looked out of the window and there were a lot of people running, an ambulance and the police," one woman told national radio. The earth quake struck at 6.47 pm, according to Spain's National Geographical Institute data. The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter was one kilometer below the ground. A milder quake of 4.5 magnitude had hit the town shortly before. The last fatal earthquake to hit Spain was in 1997, when one person was killed, according to the USGS. Deputy Prime Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba will travel to the town on Thursday to examine the damage, the prime minister's office said. Lorca, which has a population of about 90,000 people, dates back to the Bronze Age and probably gained its name from the Romans. The old part of the town is made up of a network of narrow alleyways. The town is built in the shadow of a fortress and its many architectural features include a Roman military column, the Church of San Francisco and medieval walls and gates of San Antonio. At one point in its history, Lorca was a dangerous border town caught between the Kingdom of Castile and the Moorish Kingdom of Granada. Its Easter Fiesta draws throngs of Spaniards and foreign tourists. Elsewhere in the Mediterranean, in Rome thousands of people stayed away from work and school on Wednesday due to "earthquake fever" over a decades-old prediction that a huge earthquake would destroy Rome on May 11, 2011. A 6.3 magnitude quake shook central Italy in 2009, killing 295 people, according to the USGS website. (Reporting by Emma Pinedo, Writing by Paul Day; Editing by Elizabeth Fullerton) World Natural Disasters Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. 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