Emergency personnel are scrambling to rescue people trapped under rubble, sadly, it is expected that many more dead will be found.
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Reuters is reporting a strong earthquake of 6.0 magnitude in the eastern Turkish village of Okcular in Elazig. Up to 1.5 million homes are thought to have been damaged; of the buildings that have fully collapsed, many are of older design and include numerous historic structures. The seismologist said the earthquake struck too far away from Chile’s epicentre to be an aftershock. However, he said, the earthquake in Argentina may have been triggered by the earthquake in Chile. “We don’t know yet, but its not an aftershock.” The Chilean earthquake was massive and there have been over major aftershocks yet in comparison to the Haiti disaster the damage and death toll is light. The reasons for this is that Chile is used to earthquakes and is well prepared and the buildings in Chile are built to a better standard. It’s buildings that cause the death toll, falling masonry and people trapped under tonnes of rubble. Clearly Chile has learnt some lessons from the past and this has resulted in less of a disaster than Haiti. Más de 300 víctimas mortales. Un terremoto de 8,5 grados en la escala de Ritcher afectó a la zona centro-sur del país. Según la Onemi, el epicentro se registró en la Región del Bío Bío, a unos 90 kilómetros de Concepción. A massive magnitude-8.5 earthquake struck south-central Chile early on Saturday, killing at least 82 people, knocking down homes and hospitals, and triggering a tsunami that has already hit Easter Island and Robinson Crusoe Island. All countries with a Pacific coastline are high alert. There will be a full investigation by the Belgium authorities to establish the cause. Disasters of this nature always draw attention to safety issues and the conflict between the need for operators to make a profit and the vast cost of safety measures on railways. La Oroya boasts a dirty American-owned smelter that has operated there since 1922. The metal smelter is run by the Missouri-based Doe Run Corporation and has reneged on it’s contractual promises to clean up it’s processes. Profit always comes before peoples health and well-being. Doe Run doesn’t give damn about the environment or the people who live in this area. They wouldn’t get away with it in the United States or Europe but in a ‘third-world’ country anything goes. Capitalism has no morality! REUTERS: A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit Guatemala’s Pacific coast near the border with El Salvador on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. |
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