01 March 2010
New: Chile's long experience of quakes
Chile is a one of the places with higher risk from suffering an earthquake. It is because the country lies on the "Ring of Fire" and is located between the contact of Nazca plate and South American plate which brush past each other and causes earthquakes.
People in Chile is used to earthquakes, but the one which took place last weekend had a magnitude of 8.8 which is very high, even for Chile.
This was more powerful than the one which took place in Haiti, but the main difference is that Chile infrastructures are more well-prepared to put up with an earthquake.
Alarm sounds were heard along the pacific coasts to warn about the imminent arrival of the tsunami which had been formed by the effects of the earthquake.
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