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By The Survivors Club Staff
Updated February 28, 2010
An 8.8 earthquake has rocked Chile, afflicting 1.5 million people, severely damaging 500,000 homes, and triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific and as far away as Hawaii. The massive temblor was the most powerful recorded on earth in 100 years and 64 times stronger than the one that devastated Haiti.
Eben Harrell, a London-based Time magazine journalist, told NBC News the quake as "very frightening."Harrell was in his hotel when the building started shaking, he told the TODAY show. Then he realized: "Oh my God, it's an earthquake... it's not stopping."
The shaker was the strongest to hit the South American country in 50 years. The largest quake ever recorded struck the same area of Chile on May 22, 1960, according to the Associated Press. The magnitude-9.5 quake killed 1,655 people and made 2 million homeless. Saturday's quake matched a 1906 temblor off the Ecuadorean coast as the seventh-strongest ever recorded in the world.
President-elect Sebastian Pinera reported that at least 214 people have died and the toll is expected to go higher.
For more information on surviving earthquakes, please go to the Survivors Club Earthquake/Natural Disaster Support Center.
Read more about the five myths of earthquake survival.
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