Save the Children Manda Equipos de Assesoriamente a Chile Para Ver Como Pueden Ayudar a Ninos y Familia

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Apoyo Para Chile: Como Pueden Ayudar a Chile: Donen a La Cruz Roja Chilena. Miren Lo Que Necesitan Alli

Siguiente esta una lista de articulos que la Cruz Roja Chilena necesita de la comunidad internacional:

"....Nuestra Institución solicita el apoyo de la comunidad a través de diferentes donaciones que irán en beneficio de los damnificados por la catástrofe. Los aportes en dinero se recibirán exclusivamente en la cuenta del Banco Estado Nº 362883, a nombre Cruz Roja Chilena Rut: 70.512.100-1 e-mail: finanzas@cruzroja.cl.

A nivel internacional, los aportes monetarios se canalizaran a través de la Cruz Roja de cada país, quienes han abierto ya, cuentas bancarias para los depósitos, que se transferirán a la brevedad a la Cruz Roja Chilena.

En este momento la comunidad puede donar lo siguiente:

Artículos de aseo:
Jabón de tocador
Shampoo
Desodorante
Pasta dental
Cepillos de dientes
Papel higiénico
Frazadas nuevas
Pañales..."

http://www.cruzroja.cl/noticias/noticia_414.php

Chile's Death Toll is Rising, More than 800 Thus Far: Complete Destruction of Constitucion, Talca, Talcahuano, Curico, Cauquenes and More

Tourists, retirees and vacationers staying at coastal village hotels and homes had no time to run to higher grounds.  Chilean authorities are pointing fingers at Navy for not sounding sirens to alert the population.  The huge waves slammed into homes, businesses, Summer vacationers, carried boats into streets, brought tons of debris all over town.  Animals got stranded on top of homes just like Katrina did to New Orleans.  The waves that destroyed homes took adults as well as young people, residents of these coastal villages.  Babies, women and men were heard crying as they got slammed against freight and other hard objects and tons of debris from all the destroyed infrastructures.  Animals such as dogs, cats, chickens, cows, donkeys, horses were passing by.  Every living thing was surprised by the ferociousness of the waves and the large-scale destruction.

Hundreds of people are homeless and have no food and water.  Dehydration will be a problem if the authorities do not act quickly or do not accept international help.  Chile's wealth will make a difference in the days ahead.  Until everybody can feel safe, many will suffer and go without.......

The 40 retirees enjoying summer vacation at a seaside campground nestled under pine trees knew they had to move fast after Chile's powerful earthquake struck.
They didn't make it. The tsunami came in three waves, surging 200 meters (yards) into this Pacific Ocean resort town and dragging away the bus they'd piled into, hoping to get to high ground. Most of those inside were tourists, and only five of their bodies had been found by Monday, firefighters and witnesses said.
Pelluhue's horror underscored the destruction wrought by Saturday's pre-dawn 8.8-magnitude quake and the tsunami that ravaged communities along Chile's south-central coast — those closest to the quake's epicenter. Chile's death toll reached 723, and most died in the wine-growing Maule region that includes Pelluhue.
Survivors here found about 20 bodies, and an estimated 300 homes were destroyed. Most residents were aware of the tsunami threat; street signs pointed to the nearest tsunami evacuation route. The ruins of homes, television sets, clothes, dishwaters and dead fish cover the town's black sand beaches.
"We ran through the highest part of town, yelling, 'Get out of your homes!'" said Claudio Escalona, 43, who fled his home near the campground with his wife and daughters, ages 4 and 6. "About 20 minutes later came three waves, two of them huge, about 6 meters (18 feet) each, and a third even bigger. That one went into everything."
"You could hear the screams of children, women, everyone," Escalona said. "There were the screams, and then a tremendous silence."
Destruction is widespread and food scarce all along the coast — in towns like Talca and Cauquenes, Curico and San Javier. In Curanipe, the local church served as a morgue. In Cauquenes, people quickly buried their dead because the funeral home had no electricity.
President Michelle Bachelet said authorities were flying hundreds of tons of food, water and other basics into the region.
After the quake rocked the gritty port town of Talcahuano, Marioli Gatica and her extended family huddled in a circle on the floor of their seaside wooden home, listening to the radio by a lantern's light.
They heard firefighters urging citizens to stay calm and stay inside. They heard nothing about a tsunami — until it slammed into their house with an unearthly roar. Gatica's house exploded with water. The family was swept below the surface, swirling amid loose ship containers and other heavy debris that smashed buildings into oblivion all around them.
"We were sitting there one moment and the next I looked up into the water and saw cables and furniture floating," Gatica said.
Two of the giant containers crushed Gatica's home. A third grounded between the ocean and where she floated, keeping the retreating tsunami from dragging her and other relatives out to sea. Her 11-year-old daughter, Ninoska Elgueta, clung to a tree as the wave retreated.
All the family survived except Gatica's 76-year-old mother, Nery Valdebenito, Gatica said. "I think my mother is trapped beneath" the house.
Firefighters with search dogs examined the ruins of her home. The group leader drew his finger across his neck: No one alive there.
Close to 80 percent of Talcahuano's 180,000 people are homeless, with 10,000 homes uninhabitable and hundreds more destroyed, Mayor Gaston Saavedra said.
"The port is destroyed. The streets, collapsed. City buildings, destroyed," Saavedra said.
In Concepcion, the biggest city near the epicenter, rescuers drilled through thick concrete to look for survivors trapped inside a toppled 70-unit apartment building. Firefighters had pulled 25 survivors and nine bodies from the structure

List of Things Chile Currently Needs: What do we know about the situation in Concepcion?

List of Things Chile Currently Needs:  What do we know about the situation in Concepcion?

"The looting is everywhere," complain residents of Concepcion who are mad over the fact that police did not get to control the crowd.  Ana is one of the Chileans who did not like what she was living.  She wanted the local authorities to stop the looting of markets and supermarkets.  She also wanted the military to bring in enough supplies.  Separated by over 200 miles from her parents who live in Concepcion, Ana scrambled to find their news after the quake hit the country on Feb. 27, 2010.  She had a huge sigh of relief when she found out that her parents were fine.  Just like anybody else, they were shaken but in good health.  They are terrified of being near any building as the aftershocks continue to rattle their nerves.

Eyewitnesses have been reporting that every market and supermarket had been looted in hard-hit Conception on Chile's mainland.  With no electricity and water services, Chileans were left to fend for themselves.  Looters were pillaging gas stations, pharmacies, banks and supermarkets.  The police forces were overwhelmed.  They were shooting water at the looters.  They were doing everything they could to control the situation, but they were outgunned by the large crowd who was caught in a panic rush.  That state of catastrophe pushed President Michele Bachelet to sign a decree giving the military control over security in Concepcion.  The president and her team intervened by announcing that essentials on the shelves of major supermarkets would be given away for free, under the supervision of authorities who were to distribute food and water.  A curfew has also been in effect from 9 P.M. to 6 A.M.  That allows security personnel and emergency forces to be out on the streets to rescue and help those still caught under rubbles.

What Chile Needs Right Now:

President Michele Bachelet said that the country needs field hospitals and temporary bridges, water purification plants and damage assessment experts.  Chile needs rescuers to give a break to those who have been working from Feb. 27, 2010. 

The southern parts of Chile are heavily damaged.  Besides the violent shaking, the quake unleashed monster waves that destroyed coastal settlements.  Those who knew those places can hardly recognize them now.  For example, the coastal areas of Constitucion were wiped out.  Many of the residents ran back to the hills overlooking the ocean.  The fate of most residents of the village of Lloca were sealed.  The attendees of the beachside carnival in that village were caught by the tsunami.  Despite the fear of aftershocks, rescuers and local volunteers are working feverishly to rescue people in Concepcion.  A 15-story building apartment felled on its side, trapping residents on that side.  There are still a lot of residents who are unaccounted for in this 70-unit apartment complex.  No wonder that these residents are furious over the fact that the building collapsed since it was relatively new.  They are mad at Socovil, the company that opened the concrete-and-glass building less than a year ago. 

Furthermore, five people have been reported killed by the tsunami on Robinson Crusoe island off Chile's coast.  The port city of Talcahuano has been almost destroyed by the monster waves. 


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Killer Earthquakes All Throughout History

27 February 2010

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits central Chile north-east of the second city, Concepcion.

12 January 2010

About 230,000 die in and around the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, as a 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes the city.

6 April 2009

An earthquake hits the historic Italian city of L'Aquila, killing about 300 people.

29 October 2008

Up to 300 people are killed in the Pakistani province of Balochistan after an earthquake of 6.4 magnitude struck 70km (45 miles) north of Quetta.

12 May 2008:

Up to 87,000 people are killed or missing and as many as 370,000 injured by an earthquake in just one county in China's south-western Sichuan province.

The tremor, measuring 7.8, struck 92km (57 miles) from the provincial capital Chengdu during the early afternoon.

15 August 2007:

At least 519 people are killed in Peru's coastal province of Ica, as a 7.90-magnitude undersea earthquake strikes about 145km (90 miles) south-east of the capital, Lima.

17 July 2006:

A 7.7 magnitude undersea earthquake triggers a tsunami that strikes a 200km (125-mile) stretch of the southern coast of Java, killing more than 650 people on the Indonesian island.

27 May 2006:

More than 5,700 people die when a magnitude 6.2 quake hits the Indonesian island of Java, devastating the city of Yogyakarta and surrounding areas.

1 April 2006:

Seventy people are killed and some 1,200 injured when an earthquake measuring 6.0 strikes a remote region of western Iran.

8 October 2005:

An earthquake measuring 7.6 strikes northern Pakistan and the disputed Kashmir region, killing more than 73,000 people and leaving millions homeless.

28 March 2005:

About 1,300 people are killed in an 8.7 magnitude quake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Nias, west of Sumatra.

22 February 2005:

Hundreds die in a 6.4 magnitude quake centred in a remote area near Zarand in Iran's Kerman province.

26 December 2004:

Hundreds of thousands are killed across Asia when an earthquake measuring 9.2 triggers sea surges that spread across the region.

24 February 2004:

At least 500 people die in an earthquake which strikes towns on Morocco's Mediterranean coast.

26 December 2003:

More than 26,000 people are killed when an earthquake destroys the historic city of Bam in southern Iran.

21 May 2003:

Algeria suffers its worst earthquake in more than two decades. More than 2,000 people die and more than 8,000 are injured in a quake felt across the sea in Spain.

1 May 2003:

More than 160 people are killed, including 83 children in a collapsed dormitory, in south-eastern Turkey.

24 February 2003:

More than 260 people die and almost 10,000 homes are destroyed in Xinjiang region, in western China.

31 October 2002:

Italy is traumatised by the loss of an entire class of children, killed in the southern village of San Giuliano di Puglia when their school building collapses on them.

26 January 2001:

An earthquake measuring magnitude 7.9 devastates much of Gujarat state in north-western India, killing nearly 20,000 people and making more than a million homeless. Bhuj and Ahmedabad are among the towns worst hit.

12 November 1999:

Around 400 people die when an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale strikes Ducze, in north-west Turkey.

21 September 1999:

Taiwan is hit by a quake measuring 7.6 that kills nearly 2,500 people and causes damage to every town on the island.

17 August 1999:

An magnitude 7.4 earthquake rocks the Turkish cities of Izmit and Istanbul, leaving more than 17,000 dead and many more injured.

30 May 1998:

Northern Afghanistan is hit by a major earthquake, killing 4,000 people.

May 1997:

More than 1,600 killed in Birjand, eastern Iran, in an earthquake of magnitude 7.1.

27 May 1995:

The far eastern island of Sakhalin is hit by a massive earthquake, measuring 7.5, which claims the lives of 1,989 Russians.

17 January 1995:

The Hyogo quake hits the city of Kobe in Japan, killing 6,430 people.

30 September 1993:

About 10,000 villagers are killed in western and southern India.

21 June 1990:

Around 40,000 people die in a tremor in the northern Iranian province of Gilan.

7 December 1988:

An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale devastates north-west Armenia, killing 25,000 people.

19 September 1985:

Mexico City is shaken by a huge earthquake which razes buildings and kills 10,000 people.

28 July 1976:

The Chinese city of Tangshan is reduced to rubble in a quake that claims at least 250,000 lives.

23 December 1972:

Up to 10,000 people are killed in the Nicaraguan capital Managua by an earthquake that measures 6.5 on the Richter scale. The devastation caused by the earthquake was blamed on badly built high-rise buildings that easily collapsed.

31 May 1970:

An earthquake high in the Peruvian Andes triggers a landslide burying the town of Yungay and killing 66,000 people.

26 July 1963:

An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale strikes the Macedonian capital of Skopje killing 1,000 and leaving 100,000 homeless.

22 May 1960:

The world's strongest recorded earthquake devastates Chile, with a reading of 9.5 on the Richter scale. A tsunami 30ft (10m) high eliminates entire villages in Chile and kills 61 hundreds of miles away in Hawaii.

1 September 1923:

The Great Kanto earthquake, with its epicentre just outside Tokyo, claims the lives of 142,800 people in the Japanese capital.

18 April 1906:

San Francisco is hit by a series of violent shocks which last up to a minute. Between 700 and 3,000 people die either from collapsing buildings or in the subsequent fire.

Megathrust: Chile Quake was a Giant Releasing 50 Gigatons of Energy

The huge earthquake that struck off the coast of Chile belongs to an "elite class" of mega earthquakes, experts said, and is similar to the 2006 Indian Ocean temblor that triggered deadly tsunami waves.

The magnitude-8.8 quake was a type called a "megathrust," considered the most powerful earthquake on the planet. Megathrusts occur when one tectonic plate dives beneath another. Saturday's tremor unleashed about 50 gigatons of energy and broke about 340 miles of the fault zone, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center.


The quake's epicenter was offshore and occurred about 140 miles north of the largest earthquake ever recorded - a magnitude-9.5 that killed about 1,600 people in Chile and scores of others in the Pacific in 1960.

"It's part of an elite class of giant earthquakes,"

The Coastal Towns and Villages Suffered Major Losses and Damages: Pelluhue is One of Them

Constitucion is wiped. There are very few survivors!

Most of the confirmed deaths so far are in the Maule region on the Chilean coast, which was closest to the epicenter. As much as 80% of some towns in the region was destroyed, officials said.

 The coastal town of Talcahuano was hit by destructive tsunami waves that took everything in their path.  The down is under water.  Losses of lives and property are wide-spread!

"Unfortunately, we found whole families buried in the rubble," said Alejandro Boettiger, a firefighter from the southern city of Talca. An exhausted Mr. Boettiger spoke as he carried an elderly woman out of her badly damaged apartment building.

In tiny Pelluhue, a southern coastal village of 1,000, waves harpooned 70-foot cypress trees into beachfront homes, while washing other houses up onto the slopes above town. Plywood and other debris littered the coast and floated offshore.

"The earth started shaking so violently that we couldn't stand,

A Tsunami Did Hit Pueco, Located at 6 Miles from Concepcion

After the 8.8 quake hit parts of Chile, especially Parral, Talca and Concepcion, the community of Pueco was flooded by giant waves that destroyed homes and property.  Tons of debris also washed ashore.

All over Concepcion and nearby areas, rescue operations are under way.  It is a race against time as rescue workers are trying to find people burried under debris.  More and more rescuers are coming in from other countries such as Mexico.

Authorities are trying hard to keep calm.  Chileans with money can not enter a store to buy foods.  The result is looting by many who have to act to put food in their belly.

People are too afraid to stay inside homes that were destroyed by the quake.  They are sleeping in their cars or under tents planted anywhere there is a green spot.

Epicenter at Parral and Talca's Photos