ANA SOFIA ROMERO SANCHEZ CHILI EARTHQUAKE

The earthquake of chili was a February 27, 2010 to them 3:34 local time, with a magnitude of 8.8, the epicentre was in the sea of chili, his(her,your) duration fe 2 minutes 45 second, in some regions I reach the intensity of 8, destroying part(report) of the capital, this earthquake is the worst lived one in chili from 1960, the chairwoman Michelle bachelet declare in maule and biobio " condition(state) of exepcion constitutional of catastrophe ", after the earthquake, the product was a tsunami, which I strike on Chilean coasts. Juan's Fernandez archipelago, in spite of not feeling the earthquake, was impressed by the swells that triumphed with his(her,your) populated only one, San Juan Baptizer. The alert of tsunami generated for the ocean Pacific Ocean spread later to 53 countries located along great part(report) of his(her,your) basin. The Chilean earthquake was 31 times stronger and liberated near 178 times more energy that the devastating earthquake of Haiti happened the previous month, and the liberated energy is near to 100.000 atomic bombs as the liberated one in Hiroshima in 1945 His(Her,Your) successor and elect president of Chile, Sebastin Piera, announced that it(he,she) will destine 2 % of the public budget for the reconstruction of the zones affected by the earthquake and thought that the number(figure) of dead men already reaches the 122, in spite of the fact that the National Office of Emergency (Onemi) supports in 82 the official number of victims. Coast in alert the Whole territory between(among) the regions of Valparaiso and The Araucana was declared zone of catastrophe by the Government, which at once began to make a record of the property damages, which include fall of bridges and pedestrian gangplanks in the highways that communicate Santiago with the north and south of the country. The authorities recommended to the Chileans not to travel, except for strict need, while the cities, included the capital, they remained almost paralyzed.

In Santiago of Chile the underground railroad was not working and the surface transport was scanty and the international airport Mar was closed due to some hurts(damages) in the tower of control and passengers' terminus(terminal). At first(In principle) it was said that the airport would be closed 24 hours, but later the measure spread at 48 hours and aeronautical sources(fountains) did not reject a new extension of the paralyzation. To local level, there was suspended the football of the weekend and the day of closing of the Festival of Vineyard of the Mar Replies Till now 58 replies have continued to the earthquake registered in Chile, some of which have overcome the magnitude 6 in the Richter scale, according to the Geological Institute of The United States (USGS, in English). The majority of the telluric movements had his(her,your) epicentre in the Chilean localities of Bo Bo, Maule or Valparaiso, and six of them belonged to 6 or Superior, included one opposite to Bo Bo's coasts that it(he,she) reached 6,9. Chile is located in the " Belt of Fire ", one of the most seismic zones of the whole world. The Chileans have joined to repair houses and to search persons, this way like to offer help to the damaged ones, offering houses to sleep