*ZADICO

Hello guys, I want to you know that today there was an earthquake here in my city and i gonna be inactive for a few days.
If you want to know more, look on google for Antofagasta Chile, earthquake

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Phoenix

I'm interested, I'm actually going to look into it!

Ooooh...magnitude *drool*

Magnitude 7.7 (Big), with 2 dead and 117 injured. Dozens of road workers were reported trapped in and around a highway tunnel that collapsed in the hardest-hit area.

"At the Galleguillos tunnel we understand there are some 50 people trapped," Navy Captain Ignacio Rojas told local television. "However, we are receiving information now that there could be more people trapped inside."

Hundreds of miles away in the Chilean capital Santiago, buildings swayed and unnerved even the earthquake-hardened.

The worst damage occurred in Tocopilla, 120 km north of coastal mining city Antofagasta, where people were caught under rubble from crumbling rooftops and balconies.

Tocopilla's mayor, Luis Moyano, said at least 1,200 houses had been flattened, leaving 4,000 residents homeless.

"Today, the people of Tocopilla are going to have to sleep in the streets," he told local radio.

Aid group World Vision International, which sits on a disaster relief committee for the Chilean government, said it had information suggesting the situation in Tocopilla could be far worse than reported so far.

Authorities said an 88-year-old woman was killed when a wall fell on top of her and a 54-year-old woman also died, although the cause of her death was not immediately clear.

CARS CRUSHED

Television images showed cars crushed under the concrete awning of a hotel in Antofagasta, where the quake knocked out power and phone services.

"People ran out into the streets because of how prolonged the quake was. There was a lot of alarm but no material or human damage," police chief Hernan Tamayo said in Arequipa, a town farther north near the Peruvian border.

President Michelle Bachelet was due to visit the earthquake zone on Thursday.

The United States Geological Service, or USGS, said the quake, 60 km deep, was centered 106 km west of the town of Calama and struck at 12:40 p.m. local time.

The quake was initially reported at 7.8 magnitude by the U.S. agency and later verified at 7.7. Just two hours later, a second quake of 5.7 magnitude struck in the same northern region.

The quakes hit an area of many large copper mines. Chile is the world's biggest copper producer, providing more than a third of annual supplies of the red metal.

BHP Billiton said work was paralyzed after power was cut off at its Escondida, Spence and Cerro Colorado copper mines.

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold said it later resumed operations at its Candelaria mine in Chile, but its El Abra mine was still down without power.

Chilean state copper miner Codelco said it resumed operations at its largest division, Codelco Norte, two hours after the quake left it temporarily without electricity.

Big mines in the south of Peru, also a major global metals producer, said operations were not affected.

The earthquake did not trigger a tsunami along Chile's Pacific coast and initial warnings were lifted.

Chile, like other countries around the Pacific Rim's "ring of fire" earthquake zone, has a long history of strong quakes, including the strongest recorded in recent history -- the 1960 9.5 magnitude Valdivia quake that killed thousands of people.

(Additional reporting by Antonio de la Jara and Rodrigo Martinez in Santiago and Sandra Maler in Washington)

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Johnny13

I hope everything is alright. I'm going to look into that when i finish my homework.

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LoSt SouL

I can't find it. Can you give me a link?

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Phoenix

Read my post
Or visit the USGS site

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*ZADICO

yeah, all that phoenix post is true, you should look for the hotel image, was awesome... was the radisson hotel

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LoSt SouL

I read it... That took a long time. Sorry for what happened Zad. They have to sleep in the streetsO.o

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Legendary Drow

I'm sorry to hear that such a tragic event happened to your city zad. A 7.7 magnitude...that's a pretty intense earthquake.

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//The White House\\

I hope you're okay. Was any of your property destroyed? Was any friends/ family hurt from the earthquake?

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sina j

Sorry to hear that Zad.
Hope you and everyone you know is alright, hope you come back to us safely!

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