9.5, i think, in 1960 that was simply devastated. we don t want to minimize the importance of the loss of life here, but it is really engineering and preparedness that you think have helped minimize the loss of life in this event. yeah, i have agree with you. despite the loss of life, this has to be regarded as a success story. but remember that 500,000 buildings are damaged, probably half of those irrepairably but we re looking at a kind of earthquake resistance that enables people to walk out of these damaged structures. in haiti, the structures pancaked. there was no possible way of surviving death, largely because the buildings were incredibly fragile. they have been doomed from the moment that people started building them because people were copying designs that were completely hopeless at surviving shaking. in chile, the history of earthquakes goes back several
clinton is on her way to the region. this morning cnn is covering this story like no one else. we have karl penhaul and, karl, the big problem today appears to be looting. what s going on? well, authorities will be trying to keep a lid on that, kiran, because yesterday there was looting in a super market not just far away from here and also at a flour mill and then that city was repeated and police had to step in using riot tactics and firing tear gas to stop, to stop looters looking not only for food but also for some household goods, as well. so, for that very reason, there was a dusk till dawn curfew and that has just finished, kiran. of course, karl, we have the images of the devastation of haiti s earthquake still fresh in our mind but chile a country
magnitude earthquake has yet to be realized, but here is what we know right now. at least 708 people lost their lives and the number of victims is expected to rise as search and recovery efforts continue. chile s government saying at least 1.5 million people affected and half a million homes are severely damaged. the u.s. geological survey finding at least 107 after shocks, with a magnitude of 5.0 or greater have brought child since the initial kuwait and one was nearly the same size as the 7.0 that hit haiti last month and the continued danger there, prompting the u.s. department earlier to urge americans to avoid tourism and nonessential travel it chile. signs of desperation are everywhere you look, looters pillaging a supermarket in chile s second large city of concepcion. banks, pharmacy, caught on tape the screams of panic the
much better prepared for an earthquake, right? it is. and funny you should mention haiti, of course, that situation is upper most in people s minds looking for the comparisons here. a rescue crew, a five-fighter rescue crew working on this building here. a 15-story building that simply fell over on its side. that rescue crew had only recently returned from haiti. now, what the head of the firefighters there told me was that chile has a longer culture, longer tradition of preparing for earthquakes. the building codes are much stronger and, of course, it is a much wealthier country. chile has one of the highest per capita incomes in south america, a lot of that is building buildings that can withstand earthquakes. also interesting what the firefighter described, the head firefighter described to me is that when he was in haiti, he realized that the earthquakes
5.0 to 5.5 range. in fact, out of those in total we have 87. 87 aftershocks in just less than 24 hours. that is significant. remember with haiti we had upwards of i think it was somewhere along the lines of 50 within that first day. 87 aftershocks, and all pretty significant is impressive, but expected. not surprising when you have this, 8.8. that is a great earthquake, which again, is 800 times stronger that on the quake that hit haiti. in fact, it is the fifth most powerful quake since 1900. so, this is obviously for the history books here. the number five earthquake that we have ever recorded as far as magnitude here. we continue with these aftershocks here, and the areas being impacted here, and we are looking at one region here that has seen significant aftershocks. we continue to see them further east, but natalie, even as far