Earthquake in Chile: February 27, 2010
One of the largest earthquakes in history, with a magnitude of 8.8 degrees on the Richter scale and about 50 times more intense than that of Haiti, today struck south-central Chile, leaving 147 dead interim, there are fears grow dramatically.
Carmen Fernandez, director of the National Emergency Office Home Office (Onemi), explained that part of this increase is due to the tsunami recorded on the Juan Fernandez archipelago, where there are three dead and 13 missing.
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added that, although understandable desire to return home as soon as possible, "Please people traveling in vehicles as little as possible."
The Onemi is still making assessments on the number of missing and injured.
"We are facing a tragedy of" frank Defense Minister, Francisco Vidal, after broad helicopter flying over southern parts of the country, where was the epicenter.
"This earthquake was an intensity about 50 times greater than that of Haiti," DPA said Sergio Barrientos, chief scientist at the Institute of Seismology of the University of Chile.
President Michelle Bachelet toured the isolated region of Maule wine, one of the hardest hit, where there is already accounted for about 35 dead.
"This is the biggest earthquake we faced in the past 30 years," added the president-elect, Sebastián Piñera, after meeting with Interior Minister Edmundo Perez Yoma.
The tragedy, in fact, hundreds of collapsed buildings, destroyed roads, collapsed bridges and caused waves of up to eight meters in the Pacific Ocean admitted to various coastal towns.
Santiago's international airport was damaged and evacuated. An elevator fell and air traffic will suspended for a prior period of 72 hours.
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