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Earthquake
in
Chile
At 3:34 am local
time, February 27th, a devastating magnitude 8.8
earthquake struck Chile, one of the strongest
earthquakes ever recorded. According to Chilean
authorities, over 400 people are now known to have been
killed. The earthquake also triggered a Tsunami which is
right now propagating across the
Pacific
Ocean, due to arrive in
Hawaii
in hours (around 11:00 am local time). The severity of
the Tsunami is still not known, but alerts are being
issued across the Pacific. ( 45
photos total)
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Cars lie overturned after
the highway they were travelling on was destroyed in an
earthquake in Santiago February 27, 2010. (REUTERS/Marco
Fredes)
A resident of Talca, Chile,
walks amid debris of a destroyed house after a powerful
earthquake struck the country early Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010.
(AP Photo/Roberto Candia)
Residents look at the body
of a dead man lying in a street of
Talca, some 275 kilometers south of Santiago, Saturday,
Feb. 27, 2010, after an 8.8-magnitude struck central Chile.
The quake hit 200 miles (325 kilometers) southwest of the
capital and the epicenter was just 70 miles (115 kilometers)
from Concepcion, Chile's second-largest city. (AP
Photo/Roberto Candia)
The walls and aisles of a
pharmacy in Vina del Mar are seen destroyed after a huge
8.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Chile early on February 27,
2010. The massive quake plunged much of the Chilean capital,
Santiago, into darkness as it snapped power lines and severed
communications, and AFP journalists spoke of walls and masonry
collapsing. People in pajamas fled onto the streets. (MARTIN
BERNETTI/AFP/
Getty Images)
People walk along a highway
with a collapsed bridge in the background in the outskirts of
Santiago after a huge 8.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Chile
early on February 27, 2010. (MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/ Getty
Images)
A police officer controls
the traffic aside of an elevated highway that collapsed in
Santiago following a powerful earthquake in central Chile,
Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/David Lillo)
Smoke from a burning
building fills the sky in the outskirts of Santiago after a
huge 8.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Chile on February 27,
2010. (MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/ Getty Images)
A resident takes photos of
a building damaged in Talca, Chile, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010.
(AP Photo/Sebastian Martinez)
With a computer graphic
showing the possible
path of tsunami
waves from an earthquake in Chile,
Dr. Charles McCreery speaks on the phone at the
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010
in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. The State of Hawaii is under a tsunami
warning after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake rattled Chile today.
(AP Photo/Marco Garcia)
A police officer and
residents carry a body from a destroyed house in Talca, Chile,
some 275 kilometers south of Santiago, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010
after an 8.8-magnitude struck central Chile. (AP
Photo/Sebastian Martinez)
The walls of a hotel in
Vina del Mar are seen destroyed after a huge 8.8-magnitude
earthquake rocked Chile on February 27, 2010. (MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/
Getty Images)
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