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The magnitude-8.8 Chilean quake: what one journalist saw in the immediate aftermath in Talca, 65 miles from the epicenter

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 … Continue reading

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Historical perspective on this morning’s magnitude 8.8 quake in central Chile

In the same area a magnitude 9.5 earthquake struck (May 22, 1960): And in 1939 was another large quake:

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