Earthquake Chile 8.8 Magnitude 27th 2nd 2010.

Chile Earthquake - Magnitude 8.8 Earthquake Shook Chile - A massive earthquake shook central Chile on Saturday with an initial magnitude of 8.8.
The quake struck at 0634 GMT about 91km (56 miles) north-east of the city of Concepcion and 317km south-west of the capital, Santiago.

Outgoing President Michelle Bachelet said that she had reports of six deaths so far and could not rule out that there might be more.

The US issued an initial tsunami warning for Chile, Peru and Ecuador.

That was later extended to Colombia, Antarctica, Panama and Costa Rica.

Japans meteorological agency has warned of a potential tsunami across large areas of the Pacific.

Aftershock

President Bachelet called on people to remain calm and contact the authorities if they needed help.

She said: The country has just experienced an enormous earthquake we are in the process of finding out about the effects of the quake across the region, the state of the roads and hospitals, the damage to buildings and of course the number of those killed and injured.

Ms Bachelet, who has now gone into an emergency meeting, said that there were areas of the country where communications were down and teams were working to restore them.

Buildings in Santiago were reported to have shaken for between 10 and 30 seconds, with the loss of electricity and communications.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the earthquake struck at a depth of about 35km.

It recorded a 6.2 magnitude aftershock in the same area soon after at 0652 GMT.

The USGS said tsunami effects had been observed at Valparaiso, west of Santiago, with a wave height of 1.29m above normal sea level.

One journalist speaking to Chilean national television from the city of Temuco, 600km south of Santiago, said many people there had left their homes, determined to spend the rest of the night outside. Some people on the streets were in tears.

Mark Winstanley, who contacted the BBC from Vina del Mar, 100km north-west of Santiago, said buildings had shaken and electricity and phone connections were cut but he could see no structural damage yet.

A university professor in Santiago, Cristian Bonacic, said that this was a massive quake but that the cities seemed to have resisted well. Internet communications were working but not mobile phones.

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[12stepmaster]

This is not an act of God... more an act of devil worshipers..... trust

[tjalolx]

fuck'is going on :\

[StupidDrew9]

japan earthquake just happened, worse than this

[Nia1alarcmoy]

they knew about the tsunami and we didn't

we found out 3 days later

[tuffythetiger]

Where you least expect a quake will strike again, world wide,soon they will be more frequent until people won't quit be surprise to hear, but it will surprise them when it hits their home town.Some places will be stricken more than once.I hope the best for our country,but its unavoidable as long as people abuse the earth and each other.

[tuffythetiger]

I knew this already, but HAARP initiated it .They have effected the earths cycle.There was one in my home town today, but, i been feeling the earth move in the past two weeks, i know when its an earth quake.I experienced one at the age of 12, and surprisingly was on the news the next day.More are coming worldwide and very catastrophic, be ready the end is near.

[lucianod]

chile 9.5

alaska 9.2