According to the AP (February 27, 2010):
A journalist emerging into the darkened street scattered with downed power lines saw a man, some of his own bones apparently broken, weeping and caressing the hand of a woman who had died in the collapse of a cafe. Two other victims lay dead a few feet (meters) away.
And here’s what one of the streets in Talca looked liked just two months prior to the quake:
Prometheus Unbound 