in the meantime, right now about that massive earthquake in chile. the 8.2 magnitude quake hit just off the country s northern coast last night and triggered a tsunami and several small landslides. six people are now confirmed dead. three of the victims were crushed to death. crews are out in force to assess the damage, but it appears this powerful quake could have been much worse. could have done a lot more damage. rolando santos, cnn vice president of chile, is joining us now live from the capital of santiago. rolando, give us a sense, how destructive was this quake? well, given the magnitude of the quake, actually, not very destructive. and i m not minimizing in any way the six people who lost their lives. by the way, of the six people, four of those lost their lives through heart attack. the other two as a result of the earthquake. but if you look at the damage in the region, compared to when you and i talked during the quake
evacuating people around the main government building on the outside asking them to move away and move to higher ground, although the inauguration itself is continuing. aside from the 7.2 that hit just a little before noon this morning, we ve had at least four aftershocks, not as powerful as that one but the others were just as strong, lasting anywhere from 20 to 25 seconds. and remarkably, rolando, as you re talking, you talk about the evacuations taking place around everywhere except for the location where that inauguration is taking place. we re looking right now at michelle bachelet and during this inauguration handing over power there to sebastian pinera. it s remarkable that everyone there seems very poised, not at all responding to what took place just moments ago. you know what, i m not sure exactly what they may have felt inside that particular building, because way it s constructed or whatever, but i can tell you within our newsroom in santiago,
family and josh. thank you so much. back now to this story just in. we re talking about an earthquake again in chile. a powerful 7.2 earthquake rocked the santiago area. we re talking about just two weeks after that 8.8 magnitude earthquake. joining us on the phone is president of cnn international in santiago. give me an idea, rolando. you felt the tremor, you felt this quake? oh, there was no question about it, fredricka. it was very, very strong. it went on for a good 45 seconds. the latest information just in the last two minutes, the navy has issued a tsunami alert, not a warning, a tsunami alert for the fifth region to the ninth region which covers everything from where they re in the middle of the inauguration all the way down near concepcion. we also have information from our crews where the inauguration is taking place that they re
which is state-of-the-art in terms of seismic construction, it shook for 45 seconds. i had people running downstairs, i had other people who refused to leave because we re on air. i ve got a pretty courageous group here and they re just refusing to leave so i had to walk in the newsroom and tell everyone to get under the desks until things stopped shaking. remarkable. rolando santos, president of cnn chile, we ll continue to keep tabs with you and the rest of our crews working there in chile with the 7.2 magnitude quake that was felt just moments ago there in the santiago area, as you re looking at live pictures of the handover of presidential power from bachelet to pinera. the bernie madoff ponzi scheme in this country. one year later. are you any safer from a similar scam? we ll take a closer look at the government s renewed mission to crack down. host: could switching to geico really save you
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