Chile - Earthquakes and Tsunami (Feb 2010) !!!
Chile — One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded tore apart houses, bridges and highways in central Chile on Saturday and sent a tsunami racing halfway around the world, raising tensions in Hawaii and around the Pacific Rim.
- CNN.com -- Tsunami waves from the deadly 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile rippled across the Japanese coast on Sunday. Tens of thousands of residents evacuated Sunday morning from coastal Japan in anticipation of a possible tsunami after the earthquake.
- DNAIndia.com : WASHINGTON: The total value of economic damage caused by a massive earthquake suffered by Chile Saturday is likely to range between $15 billion-30 billion, a US risk modeling firm (EQECAT) predicted.
- More than 300 people were killed, according to Chile's Office of Emergency Management, and 15 are missing.
- More than 2 million affected by earthquake, Chile's president says.
- President Michelle Bachelet declared a "state of catastrophe" in central Chile but said the government had not asked for assistance from other countries.
- The carnage from the 8.8-magnitude quake didn't begin to approach that unleashed by January's earthquake in Haiti, which left 212,000 people dead and more than a million homeless, even though it was considerably less forceful, with a 7.0 magnitude.
- Saturday's quake was 700 to 800 times stronger, but at a greater depth -- 21.7 miles -- compared to the shallow 8.1-mile depth of the Haiti quake, which contributed to much of the damage there.
- Power outages in Santiago and Concepcion.
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Chile's strongest earthquakes:
- May 22, 1960: A magnitude- 9.5 earthquake in southern Chile and ensuing tsunami killed at least 1,716 people. It is the strongest quake ever recorded in the world.
- Aug. 13, 1868: A magnitude- 9.0 quake in Arica, Peru (now Chile) generated catastrophic tsunamis; more than 25,000 people were killed in South America.
- July 8, 1730: A magnitude-8.7 quake in Valparaiso, Chile, killed at least 3,000 people.
- Many beaches were also closed due to tsunami warnings.
Sources: U.S. Geological Survey; Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology; WHO's International Disaster Database
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