Lisa Pena beamed as she took down a four-foot poster of the Virgin of Guadalupe from her cracked blue wall.
"Look, honey," she said to her husband. "It's a miracle my virgin was saved."For many, blessings were few in this Pacific coastal city, where a 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit Monday, wrecking hotels, homes and highways. More than 50 people died.
Late Wednesday, authorities identified two Canadian tourists killed in the collapse of the eight-story Hotel Costa Real as Dirk Jan Boswyk, 58, and Judy Jang, 68, both of Vancouver.
Thousands remain homeless and wait for help.
"Nobody stays in their homes because we don't want to die," said Catalina Figueroa. "If there is any movement, our houses will fall."
In the Salahua soccer field in this city of 60,000, several hundred people are camped out. Children play ball while adults make dinner and ponder the future.
"We don't know what to do, we don't have anywhere to go," said Zulema Barriga, showing a visitor the gaping cracks in the pink walls of her modest home. "We have to tear it down."
"We play football so we don't get scared and feel the ground move," said 14-year-old Jose Alfonso Barriga.
Children giggled as they scampered across the field, trading stories of where they were when the quake changed their lives.
"I was at school when everything started shaking," said Rosio Gabriela Rincon, 12. "The doors locked and my teacher fell down."