The death toll from a powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Albania continued to climb as emergency workers found more bodies combing through the debris of buildings collapsed by the shaking.

The earthquake ravaged coastal areas, particularly Durrës, the second most populous city in Albania. It was there and in nearby Thumane where most of the at least 30 people killed were found. More than 650 others were injured, some seriously.

Hundreds of buildings collapsed, including a seven-story hotel, the New York Times reported.

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Several powerful aftershocks have since hit the area since the initial quake struck in the early-morning hours Tuesday. People slept in the street, in tents or in cars over fears of more building collapses from the aftershocks and because many had already lost their homes.

The Albanian government declared Wednesday a day of mourning, but there was little time to do so for the many emergency workers, some from over a dozen countries that had descended upon the area, to pick through the rubble in the hopes of finding survivors.

More than 40 survivors had been found so far, BBC.com reported. But many remained missing, including the wife of Ajet Peci, who already lost two of his daughters to the quake.

"How can I live?" Peci told the Associated Press. "I don’t know what I did to make it out. I wish I had stayed with them."

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