Posted on February 27, 2010 by by valerirojas

UPDATES every few minutes:

• People in Concepcion are asking the government for food and clean water.
• People stealing from shopping centres in Concepcion.
• More than 300 people have died in Chile.
• 214 people confirmed dead so far in Chile.
• No water, gas or electricity in Concepcion, Chile.
• 5 people have died in Valparaiso and 15 are still missing.
• Google Chilean Earthquake Person Finder – Localisa tu familia en Chile  http://chilepersonfinder.appspot.com/
• Twitter images of Chilean Earthquake – Fotos en Twitter del terremoto en Chile http://twitcaps.com/search?q=%23terremotochile
• Tsunami to hit Hawaii in about 20 minutes. Surfers waiting for it.
• Wave to be 7 feet high.
• TV Chile thanks twitter users for sharing information, photos and links to videos
• 1.5 Million homes damaged.
• Schools cancelled in six regions of Chile.
• Over 629 people have died, 147 confirmed dead.
• 85 people have died in the Maule region.
• People in Hawaii are all calm and waiting for the Tsunami to hit the country.
• death toll

UPDATE:

The Chilean TV “TV Chile” just confirmed 47 deaths.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tv-de-chile

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A massive 8.8 earthquake hit Chile at 3:24 am this morning, the following content is from a Latin American source.

From infobae.com – Google translator

“A 8.8 magnitude earthquake shook Chile in the early hours of Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey. Six people are confirmed dead, houses collapsed and power and telephone lines are down.”

The Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, called on the population to remain calm and said that so far there are six confirmed fatalities.

“I can only confirm that there are five deaths in the Maule Region and one in the Araucanía region,” Bachelet said talking to journalists.

“No doubt with an earthquake of this nature, this size of this magnitude, we can not exclude that there may be other deaths and probably injured,” added the president, who called an emergency meeting.

Due to the drop in supply of electricity in large parts of Chile, police and firefighters took to walk the streets in cities across the country with patrols and sirens to verify the extent of the damage and assist victims.

People can also follow live spanish updates from Chilean TV on Ustream.

8.8 Chilean Earthquake - 47 dead, Spanish update and Live Chilean News on Ustream, 5.0 out of 5 based on 3 ratings

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