The Takeaway

Aftermath of the Chile Earthquake

Monday, March 01, 2010 - 05:30 AM

By Jim Colgan

Rescue workers help an injured woman in Concepcion, 500 km south of Santiago. (Getty Images)

Hundreds are dead and 1.5 million people are displaced after one of the biggest earthquakes on record hit central Chile. Chile's president, Michelle Bachelet, says the massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake created "a catastrophe of such unthinkable magnitude that it will require a giant effort" to recover.

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Smoke from a burning building fills the sky in the outskirts of Santiago after a huge 8.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Chile early killing at least 78 people, on February 27, 2010.
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A man stands at a beach in Lima. Some beaches there present an abnormal low tide because of the earthquake.
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Rescue workers help an injured woman in Concepcion, 500 km south of Santiago.
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A rescue worker walks along the stairs of a building in Valparaiso that was heavily damaged by the quake.
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Cars are seen flipped over after a bridge collapsed in Santiago. The quake plunged much of the Chilean capital, Santiago, into darkness as it snapped power lines, toppling buildings and bridges.
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Eli Cantu and Scott Liang make sandbags along Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii. Residents stocked up on food and emergency supplies in preparation for a potentially damaging tsunami.
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Rescue workers and firefighters look for victims in a wrecked building in Concepcion, Chile
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Man drinks in a street devastated by the tsunami in Talcahuano, Chile
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Troops patrol along downtown Talcahuano, Chile
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U.S. President Barack Obama pledged Saturday that the United States was ready to provide assistance to Chile.

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Comments [5]

Laura Boylan from NYC

Where can we donate to help out?

Mar. 02 2010 06:01 PM
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Robert Coles from Long Island

Large Hadron Collider and earth "cataclysms" work on a different magnitude. Colliders affect sub-atomic particles. I would compare the two levels as a crystal of salt in a very large commercial cooking brazier.
Both obey to basic physic law, but the Collider has no effect (IMHO).

Mar. 02 2010 07:53 AM
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Jan from NJ

Has anyone considered that the Halderon Collider in Switzerland has anything to do with the monster quakes. 1st time it was powered up there was the tsunami. It has now been `1/2 powered up again. Somehow I am not surprised. What do the scientists think?

Mar. 01 2010 09:16 PM
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mauricio from Santiago, Chile

Dear Shannon, though I don't know you I can tell you that Villa Alemana is OK, no one was harmed there and the town is standing without a problem

Mar. 01 2010 07:55 PM
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Shannon from Vancouver

My dear friend Marcela lives in Santiago, and I am very worried about her. I have been trying to contact her since I heard the news.
I hope that Villa Alemana is safe along with Marcela and all her loved ones.

Feb. 28 2010 12:55 PM
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