CHILE EARTHQUAKE LAST NEWS

Nearly 22 hours of the earthquake in Chile, and recently in these last hours, has taken a real conscience of what happened.

At first it was thought that although the quake had been of 8.8 degrees on the scale of Richert, Chile infrastructure after the earthquake in Valdivia in 1960 (which was 9.5 the largest earthquake worldwide known and registered) was amended and is an anti-earthquake structure, had been able to endure the scourge of this earthquake of great magnitude.
But over the hours have been made aware, that even if the infrastructure in their great majority was prepared to endure earthquakes, collapse, bridges intact, portions of bridges, buildings recent years, the same airport in Santiago, Chile – located about 600 km from the epicenter of the quake have been affected greatly.

About 300 dead and are being counted, which may be enhanced by the large number of casualties, missing persons especially in areas where there have been tsunami, missing under the rubble, about 2 million homeless.

When the tsunami warning was given and the hours passing thought that nothing would happen, but the water came into the coastal cities several kilometers inland, destroying cities, houses, causing injuries and deaths.
The authorities and media also talk about surfing without naming what it has been a tsunami, the tsunami in Indonesia since 2004, is thought to only cause a tsunami wave that size greater than 8 meters, but in reality a tsunami can be defined as a wave or a group of high-energy waves and size that occur when an extraordinary phenomenon vertically displaces a large mass of water.