Right as my wife and son are flying in to Peru. Like, they're literally in the air en route to Lima now...
8.0 earthquake strikes northern Chile
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#22On a related note, we are adding earthquakes to Riskpulse.com this week. It's amazing how much scattered and rich data there is, but it's just that ... scattered.
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#23Right as my wife and son are flying in to Peru. Like, they're literally in the air en route to Lima now...
I'm in Lima right now, hardly anyone has noticed a thing so for the moment I would try not to worry. Certainly don't know anyone who even felt any tremors.
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#24God, please protect them from harm and danger..
I'm sure you saved many lives with that prayer, you must be proud.
I share the same sentiment, and probably would have expressed it in the past.
I've come to the conclusion that when people are in grief or times of crisis, it's sort of being an asshole to point out that they're wrong and not helping. So long they're not promoting pointless measures to the exclusion of useful ones, they're not really harming anyone immediately. YMMV.
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#25I am from Chile... live on Santiago though, far away (2+ thousand KM) from the North. AFAIK there have been no casualties. People have been evacuated from the coastal areas all over Chile (even in the south for precaution). Cheers.
So far 2 dead, 3 seriously injured according to Reuters.
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#27It's been updated to 8.2. No casualties reported so far. And, actually, a bigger one it's expected in the zone, the "big event".
Do you have any links about "The big event" it seems like in every town somebody "knows" about it
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#28I'm Chilean and I live in a "problematic" area. Fortunately it was not that hard. We're kind of prepared (of course, with nature, nobody is actually prepared for something like this) and the Government and the people are already evacuating those areas. The sad part? A lot of people is evacuating using cars, and streets doesn't gave so much space to handle all that traffic. Internet and Mobile networks are still worki…
Is there anything worth taking photos of, or do you know of any decent photo sites? Glad it wasn't that hard and your Government is competent!
Not really. I think tomorrow will be a better moment to take some, given the fact that everything is happening by night. I have some pictures from the old 8.8 earthquake on Flickr[1] from a City called Angol (very close to the epicenter of the 8.8 magnitude)...
[1]: https://flickr.com/photos/marlexsystems/sets/721576274358393...
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#29I am from Chile... live on Santiago though, far away (2+ thousand KM) from the North. AFAIK there have been no casualties. People have been evacuated from the coastal areas all over Chile (even in the south for precaution). Cheers.
So far 2 dead, 3 seriously injured according to Reuters. http://www.trust.org/item/20140402024844-z0fmt
According to our president, 5 are dead (she's live on TV right now).
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#30I'm Chilean and I live in a "problematic" area. Fortunately it was not that hard. We're kind of prepared (of course, with nature, nobody is actually prepared for something like this) and the Government and the people are already evacuating those areas. The sad part? A lot of people is evacuating using cars, and streets doesn't gave so much space to handle all that traffic. Internet and Mobile networks are still worki…
Is there anything worth taking photos of, or do you know of any decent photo sites? Glad it wasn't that hard and your Government is competent!
Take a look of some of the most recent pictures here: http://www.latercera.com/multimedia/relacionado-articulo/201...