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morning was silence. it just felt like the ground was shifting silently. it was very, very surreal to have that sort of violence companied by such silence. i don t know how long it went on for, but that was the other defining characteristic for me is the feeling of identifying it was an earthquake and thinking to yourself, okay, we can handle this. it is an earthquake and then thinking to yourself, well, it is not stopping. and that was also something that i didn t remember from my youth, earthquakes lasting as long as this one. this is a manager any attitude 8.8 quake. that would make it one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded. we spoke to one scientist who said it was more powerful than a nuclear weapon going off. we don t have a sense, at least i don t, of what santiago is like around you, what chile is like, how bad has the destruction been?

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