Pacha Films

I was in Lima, Peru on that fateful day in August 2007 when an 8.0 earthquake struck that country. (Wikipedia summary here).

 

A couple hours after reporting on the phone from Lima on the initial shock of it all, the next question was being asked, like it always is after the initial trauma of a quake: "Where is the epicentre?" 

 

Word was getting out on local radio that the epicentre was near a village called Pisco, about 150km south of Lima. But no journalists had actually reached Pisco at that moment. 

 

So myself, and my friends and journalist colleagues Guillermo Galdos, Luis Del Valle and Gino Amadori of Lima-based Pacha Films got in a car shortly after midnight the first day and started motoring towards Pisco.