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world news : Image generated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) West Coast and Alaska Warning Center tsunami waves shows the projected travel times in the aftermath of the earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 that shook Chile early February, February 27, 2010. Reuters / NOAA / statement
Blends a massive earthquake and Chile, and 78 dead – Reuters
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A massive earthquake measuring 8.8 that struck the south-central Chile in the early on Saturday, killing at least 78 people and destroyed buildings and causing the tsunami.
President Michelle Bachelet said there were 78 confirmed deaths and it was possible that more. Telephone lines and electricity have fallen, making it difficult to assess in the early damage, but serious damage was reported in two southern cities.
“Never in my life and I experienced such an earthquake, it’s like the end of the world,” one man told local television from the city of Temuco, where the quake destroyed buildings and forced the evacuation of staff from the provincial hospital.
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