The Central American nation of Guatemala is reeling from the earthquake that struck them on Wednesday.
The quake register as having a magnitude of 7.4 and has left according to CNN.com 52 people dead and hundreds injured and President Otto Perez Molina says numbers are people are missing while 700 are in shelters.
The 7.4 magnitude earthquakes happened along Guatemala's pacific coast and could be felt as far away as Mexico City which 600 miles away.
President Perez reported that there were 70 after aftershocks in the first 24 hours after the quake some of which were in the region of having 5.1 magnitudes.
Among those that lost their lives to the earthquake was 6-year old boy Giovanni. The youngster accompanied his grandfather and uncle to their job at a quarry.
When the quake struck the trio were at the site according to CNN. A neighbor arrived at the quarry to find that a vast amount of sand covering the area.Giovanni and his grandfather were pulled from the ground with his grandfather Mario Ramirez trying to shelter him from the barrage of earth.
Manuel de Leon a witness on the scene said. "There were people crying and yelling, but no one was doing anything to rescue them." Soon after help arrived on the scene to dig entrapped out.
The earthquake had an epicenter of 15 miles and had a depth of 26 miles and was located near the coastal town of Champerico.
According to the Huffington Post more than 90 rescue workers continued to dig with backhoes at a half-ton mound of sand at a second quarry that buried seven people.
Julio Cesar Fuentes of the municipal fire department said. "We started rescue work very early. The objective is our hope to find people who were buried."
Reports are saying that this earthquake is the biggest to strike the region since 1976.
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