Spain’s worst earthquakes in 50 years killed eight people and injured dozens sent thousands of people.

According to The Associated Press, people who slept in cardboard boxes, tents, and on the ground at the five makeshift camps in fear of aftershocks. The camps are set up in the small city of Lorca that was hit by the two quakes — with magnitudes of 4.4 and 5.2 — a day earlier.

Eight people, including one child, had died in the quakes which seriously damaged many buildings and crushed vehicles. A total of 167 people were treated in hospitals in the city.

This was the deadliest quake in Spain since 1956, when 12 people died and some 70 were injured in a quake in the southern Granada region, according to the National Geographic Institute.

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