and president michelle bachelet. we are standing by to give them anything we can unconditionally. we are poor, but we have a great heart. we have solidarity, and our chilean brothers know they can count on us for whatever they need. aid groups are already mobilizing supplies for chile and emergency funding to the area as well. so far the eu has offered $4 million to help the country recover and world vision is sending supplies and blankets and collapsible water containers. meantime, teams from the aid organization doctors without borders are on the way to the disaster zone, and the aid organization oxfam is sending a team of water engineers, logistics experts and humanitarian staff. the casualties in chile s earthquake are in the hundreds, while the death toll from haiti s relatively weaker earthquake is in the tens of thousands. as reggie akie reports, one of the reasons for difference is chile s experience in dealing
as argentina, we have been registering aftershocks there. just to give you an idea of the enormity here and the energy that we are talking about here. i will share with you the forecast real quick. i am not real concerned about the recovery efforts here, and sun, sun, sun, and temps in the low to mid-20s, but what i am concerned about is the aftershocks. as we saw in haiti, we had search and rescue missions that were suspended for a time as we continued to get the aftershocks, because you know as folks were going in there to rescue the victims, things can go down as you talk about the aftershocks over 5.0, so that is what we are concerned about and will continue to monitor. we think they will continue for days on end. all right. ivan, thanks muchment see you in a bit. so many people in chile sharing their experiences with the coyotes. co coming up we will have a first-hand account of a man and
bring in ivan cabrerra who is looking at alarming statistics about that. eye vangsiva ivan, i remember it was 24 hours ago that from cnn chile, they were saying that an hour after the earthquake, he stopped counting at 25 aftershocks. you do stop counting, because the frequency and we are talking about minutes apart. they are significant and have been in the range and over the past several hours of 5.0. but i will share with you that we have had since the 8.8, essentially we have had seven earthquakes or aftershocks 6.0 or greater. that is significant, and the highest one or the greatest one was 6.9 which is almost as strong as the main earthquake in haiti. so you can imagine that is going to cause additional damage there. we haven t had 6.0-plus aftershocks in a while. they have been generally in the
how many people need help? well, fortunately, since we have had a history of earthquakes, the construction code in chile is strict and demanding. so, i think that an 8.8 quake in another country without the building codes that we have could have meant thousands upon thousands of lives lost. that has not been the case, even though there are some high-rises that have fallen in around the city of concepcion, and there are people trapped. this is not in any shape or form anything similar to the tragedy of haiti. these are restricted areas, and buildings and the rescue operations are under way. reporter: we heard from president bachelet that 2 million people have been affected by this quake. exactly. reporter: describe to us in what way are these people? people without homes who have to
we are going to be mapping for the chile platform using the same categories and indicators we did for haiti. these categories and indicators include emergency collapsed structures, aftershocks, medical emergencies, issues having to do with vital lines like power outages, blocked roads and food distribution as well as water distribution. so that s what s happening on the mass scale. here is the woman from chile living in d.c. trying to help in any way she can. take a listen. people start asking me questions because electricity went down in chile so people could only have access to twitter through their cell phones, their smart phones, right? so they start asking me what i