I still have family in Chile, Santiago specifically. It's such a beautiful country, it's so sad that it has earthquake problems. My family awoke in the middle of the night to the earthquake (which was half the magnitude of what it was at the epicentre 300km+ to the south around Concepcion). The cars were bouncing, they were bouncing, alarms went off and they thought the house would come down. I can only imagine how horrific it was for the people at the epicentre. Thankfully, my family is fine and the house only had very minor damage.
After Canada and the US, Chile and Brazil probably have the best infrastructure in all of the Americas, so Chile had that going for it. 700 victims at this time is what is really sad.
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