Huge 8.8-magnitude quake hits Chile

last SG · 2010-02-28T10:53:33+00:00

Come into my new freezer...........it can protect anyone inside from the tsunami.......

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US$50,000 for Chile relief

THE Singapore Government will contribute US$50,000 to purchase relief supplies requested by the Chilean government to help those affected by the earthquake.

The contribution will be channelled through the Singapore Red Cross to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement on Wednesday.

Chile's government on Tuesday stepped up food aid to desperate survivors using helicopters and boats as the death toll rose to nearly 800 three days after a devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake and tsunami.

The government also dispatched more troops to restore order in the country's second-largest city, Concepcion, which was placed under curfew for 18 hours a day after looters raided stores and burned a supermarket.

--ST

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Aid reaches battered areas, unevenly

Relief efforts in earthquake-torn Chile have begun to reach the remote coastal areas hardest hit by Saturday's quake and ensuing tsunami.

But three big, successive aftershocks rattled already nervous residents.

The tremors, measuring between magnitudes 5.9 and 6.3, triggered a new tsunami alert along parts of the coastline.

Blaring sirens sent residents scurrying for higher ground in at least three coastal towns, according to eyewitnesses and local radio.

The alarms turned out to be false.

The fresh jolts only added to the misery in coastal towns, where anger at the government is greatest for downplaying the tsunami risk immediately after the quake and for doing little to aid survivors in the days since.

Aid is arriving unevenly in other areas, raising worries of disease and lack of clean drinking water.

In the industrial hub of Concepcion, Chile's second-largest city, some residents have resorted to drinking water out of backyard pools.

Health workers said the situation could turn dire.

But in several towns south of Concepcion, government trucks began turning up with food, water and medicine.

--938Live

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Chile quake toll rises to 802

SANTIAGO - THE official death toll from the 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile and the tsunami it unleashed rose to 802 on Wednesday, the country's national emergency office said.

The majority of the new deaths recorded Wednesday were in the Maule region - where nearly 600 people were confirmed dead after Saturday's quake.

Earlier, the office confirmed 92 deaths in Bio Bio, 48 in O'Higgins, 38 in the capital's metropolitan area, 20 in Valparaiso and 14 in Araucania. -- AFP

As romanista2001 SG

so between Haiti and Chile, HAARP has killed hundreds of thousands of people..............both over oil...........

Haiti has oil reserves many times that of Saudi Arabia while the attack on Chile was to a warning to Argentina over Falklands which has oil reserves many times that of the Saudis........

look out for Falklands War 2 and more major earthquakes..............

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