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Major quake devastates Chile
Published: 27 February, 2010, 14:20
Edited: 15 March, 2010, 11:16
TAGS: Natural disasters, Russia, South America
The death toll from the massive 8.8 earthquake which struck Chile on Saturday now stands at over 700. This number is expected to rise as rescuers continue to search for survivors trapped under the rubble.
Two powerful tremors hit Chile on Saturday, causing the country’s president to declare an emergency in the three states most affected by the disaster. There has been no final report on the scope of damage caused by the quake.
Over one million people have been affected, with buildings collapsing and vital infrastructure ruined.
Chile's president, Michelle Bachelet, ordered the army to help police fight looters. Several people have been arrested.
Fears of a huge tsunami following the quake have abated with an alert across the entire Pacific now cancelled.
The tremor, measuring a magnitude 8.8, is the strongest to hit Chile in nearly 50 years.
A local TV reporter, Juan Bustamante, says whole towns have been evacuated:
“I was in the 5th region, in Santiago at the coast near Vina del Mar. At about 3:34 am we felt the earth shake. It seemed to last forever, but afterwards we were told it lasted for only about two minutes. People said they were unable to walk outside because the shaking was so bad.
I saw injured people in the coastal area near the epicentre of the earthquake. Some hospitals were completely destroyed and most of the casualties were patients in them. At present, the priority is to find accommodations for people. Residents of the coastal area cannot go home because of the risk of a tsunami following the earthquake.
The authorities have done their job in moving people away from the coastal area. Some towns have been completely evacuated to the south of Chile, as its homes had been washed away. Rescuers are surveying the area from helicopters and are working in the rubble. The Chilean president is there also, and says it’s a national catastrophe. A solidarity campaign has been set up to provide support for the country. We haven’t seen such an earthquake since the 1960s.”
Juan Bustamante also told RT that a massive rescue-effort is continuing.
“The search for the missing at the epicenter of the quake – in the Maule and Biobio regions – continues. Rescue teams are still working in one of the buildings in the city of Concepcion to reach dozens of injured people still trapped under the rubble,” he said. “Just yesterday, 30 people were saved. It's not known whether the rest are still alive. In the capital, Santiago, people spent the night in the streets in fear of new tremors. Also, communications remain disrupted and there is no electricity or water supplies in some parts of the capital. Authorities are trying to overcome the consequences of the disaster. This morning, more rescue squads were sent to the area – but some are almost completely flooded with help. Relief works are being co-coordinated by the state emergencies agency.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Russia is ready to provide assistance and humanitarian aid to Santiago, should it be necessary.
Incidentally, 50 years ago, on May 24, 1960, an earthquake in Chile created a disastrous tsunami up to 20 meters high that pounded about 1,000 kilometers of the Chilean coastline, destroying several populated localities and killing over 2,000 people.Back then, the wave reached the Far East of the Soviet Union and registered a wave on the Kamchatka peninsula of 7 meters high. No one was hurt.
This time scientists reported only minor-strength waves caused by the tsunami in the Kamchatka Peninsula area. No other disruptions have been registered and no further waves are expected to hit Russia’s Far East region.
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Jet another artificially caused earthquake with detonation of nuclear warheads mounted on a rockets drill to reach optimum underground location for the ground tremors. Haiti earthquake was caused by the Rockefeller bankrupt faction to prevent $47 trillion dollars reaching its destination though Haiti as a transfer corridor which the Rockefellers had to pay part of their debt to the World from the financial collapse they orchestrated few years earlier. These guys are mortally wounded and on the run and are causing as much damage as possible before they cease to exist. Does anybody wonder why George W Bush senior and Henry Kiesinger, (their most top officials), haven’t been seen lately for the past 2-3 months? Why Madeleine Albright arrived in Moscow 2 weeks ago without Henry Kiesinger with the group of Wise Men when Henry Kiesinger was the leader of this group? Sadly, these 2 Rockefeller’s top officials are not with us today to tell us bit more about the New World Order!?!
The downtown area of Hilo, Hawaii was wiped clean by a tsunami, and part of it was never rebuilt but was converted to a park. Part of the damage in Anchorage, Alaska back in the 1960s was caused by the tsunami that began offshore and emptied the harbor. If the Pacific "Ring of Fire" is starting to heat up again (big quakes in Chile, Argentina, and Japan in the last 24 hours) then everybody on every coast had better check in with their local emergency services. And keep an eye out for high ground. Also, here is another recommendation for more ships like the "Mistral". With earthquakes that tear up the ground like Chile and Haiti, airports are going to be unusable or mobbed, and there will be more bottlenecks stopping the movement of rescuers and import of critical materials. Cargo helicopters based from a ship like the "Mistral" do not need runways.
Bronx is absolutely right about artificially caused earthquake in Haiti by the Rockefellers faction in America but the earthquake was detonated as soon as those $47 trillion were transferred to Haiti which served as a corridor for the money transfer final destination and with the quake the electronic system was interrupted and the money were stuck in Haiti. Then the USA army moved in Haiti with the pretext as humanitarian force to help the Haitian Government with food distribution and sheltering affected people, but their real mission was to get hold of those $47 trillion and bring it back to America to the Rockefellers and that’s what happened. This time Chile was chosen as a transfer corridor for those $47 trillion and the same catastrophe happened with Nuclear Detonation to interrupt money transfer. These guys are just not giving up without a fight on their most precious possession because that is their body and soul.