You can start at the bottom to feel the first tremor:
"Chile’s big quake causes little damage, death" by Luis Hidalgo and Luis Andres Henao | Associated Press April 03, 2014
IQUIQUE, Chile — Hard-won expertise and a big dose of luck helped Chile escape its latest 8.2-magnitude earthquake with surprisingly little damage and few deaths.
The country that suffers some of the world’s most powerful quakes has strict building codes, mandatory evacuations, and emergency preparedness that sets a global example. But Chileans weren’t satisfied Wednesday, finding much room for improvement. And specialists warn that a ‘‘seismic gap’’ has left northern Chile overdue for a far bigger quake.
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The great earthquake will be in the month of May?
On Wednesday, authorities discovered just six reported deaths from the previous night’s quake. It is possible others died in older structures made of adobe in remote communities that were not immediately accessible, but it is still a very low toll for such a powerful shift in the undersea fault that runs along the length of South America’s Pacific coast....
If that is what it was and not a HAARP. South America has pissed off AmeriKa by backing Venezuela.
Maybe you think I'm being too "conspiratorial," but that fact is I don't know what to believe anymore. I only know I'n not getting the whole truth from the newspaper.
Chile is one of the world’s most seismic countries and is particularly prone to tsunamis, because of the way the Nazca tectonic plate plunges beneath the South American plate, pushing the towering Andes cordillera ever higher.
About 2,500 homes were damaged in Alto Hospicio, a poor neighborhood in the hills above Iquique, a city of nearly 200,000 people whose coastal residents joined a mandatory evacuation ahead of a tsunami that rose to 8 feet. Fishermen poked through the aftermath: sunken and damaged boats that could cost millions of dollars to repair and replace.
Still, as President Michelle Bachelet deployed hundreds of antiriot police and soldiers to prevent looting and round up escaped prisoners, it was clear that the loss of life and property could have been much worse....
I'm thankful for that, but six people still died.
The mandatory evacuation lasted for 10 hours in Iquique and Arica, the cities closest to the epicenter, and kept 900,000 people out of their homes along Chile’s 2,500-mile coastline. The order to leave was spread through cellphone text messages and Twitter, and reinforced by blaring sirens in neighborhoods where people regularly practice earthquake drills.
But the system has its shortcomings....
Alberto Maturana, the former director of Chile’s Emergency Office, said Chileans were lucky the quake hadn’t caught them in the middle of the day when parents and children are separated, or in the middle of the night.
He was highly critical of the government’s response, citing the need for better access to roads, transportation, health care, and supplies.
Bachelet, who returned to the presidency three weeks ago, had no margin for error.
See: Bachelet Back in Chile
The last time she presided over a major quake, days before the end of her 2006-10 term, her emergency preparedness office prematurely waved off a tsunami danger.
Most of the 500 dead from that 8.8-magnitude tremor survived the shaking, only to be caught in killer waves.
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Have they cleaned up from the last one yet?
"Large aftershocks rattle Chile residents; Military patrols keep order; alert lifts for tsunami" by Luis Hidalgo and Luis Andres Henao | Associated Press April 04, 2014
IQUIQUE, Chile — Coastal residents of Chile’s far north spent a second sleepless night outside their homes as major aftershocks continued Thursday following a magnitude-8.2 earthquake that damaged several thousand homes and caused six deaths.
And it can't be all that warm down there right now.
No new major damage or casualties were reported, and a heavy police and military presence kept order.
The infrastructure in the area is mostly intact, but power remains out in many places and hospitals were taking only emergencies. Schools were closed, and large supermarkets and gas stations coordinated their reopenings Thursday with police and military to avoid problems with long lines of customers.
After a magnitude-7.6 aftershock struck just before midnight Wednesday, Chile’s Emergency Office and navy issued a tsunami alert, and for two hours ordered everyone living in low-lying areas along the country’s entire 2,500-mile Pacific coastline to evacuate.
Among those moved inland was President Michelle Bachelet, who was in the city of Arica assessing damage from Tuesday night’s powerful quake.
‘‘I was evacuated like all citizens. One can see that the people are prepared,’’ she tweeted early Thursday.
Chile’s evacuation order was lifted at about 2 a.m. Thursday. Some 900,000 people also were affected the night before when the coast was evacuated for several hours after Tuesday’s bigger quake, although the tsunami proved to be small.
The repeated aftershocks have shaken buildings and sent people running into the streets in the port of Iquique, the largest city near the epicenter. About 45 minutes before the 7.6 quake, a magnitude-6.5 aftershock rattled Iquique. The shaking loosened more landslides near Alto Hospicio, a poor area at the entrance to Iquique where about 2,500 homes had been damaged Tuesday.
The Ministry of Education suspended classes again in schools in the north Thursday, while the region’s top prosecutor, Manuel Guerra, said his office is taking action against speculators who raised prices for bread, water, milk, and diapers. ‘‘They will be detained and charged,’’ Guerra tweeted.
The largest aftershock was felt across the border in southern Peru, where people in the cities of Tacna and Arequipa fled buildings. Police Lieutenant Freddy Cuela in Tacna said no damage or injuries were reported. Peru’s navy tweeted a tsunami alert for the country’s extreme southern coast.
Authorities have reported six deaths, but did not rule out the possibility others could have been killed in older structures made of adobe in remote communities that were not immediately accessible.
The tsunami after Tuesday night’s quake caused the sea to rise 8 feet in Iquique, enough to sink and damage many fishing boats, lifting some onto city streets.
Still, as Bachelet deployed hundreds of police and soldiers to prevent looting and round up escaped prisoners, it was clear the loss of life and property could have been much worse.
Chile is among the world’s most earthquake-prone countries, and tsunamis are a particular danger because the fault zone lies just offshore, where the Nazca tectonic plate plunges beneath the South American plate.
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