While there are functioning emergency services in the city, it's a different picture in hard-to-reach mountainous areas, where the chaos and pain is still to be addressed.
Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerOn the one hand, the city is still bustling and chaotic - a home to many tourists. There were plenty of people walking around the centre, or enjoying a drink and a meal.
Outside, groups of people are preparing to sleep overnight in the square. Either their homes are too badly damaged or, more likely, they are fearful of the damage that could be wreaked by another tremor. Some of them have been ordered out of their homes by the police.'Once-in-a-lifetime' earthquake
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