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Magnitude 8.2: heart attacks, evacuation, escape
As a result of a powerful earthquake, people were killed, 900 thousand fled their dwellings, including 300 prisoners of one of the prison , President Chile Michel Bachelet announced in three northern provinces a state of emergency in connection with a strong earthquake that occurred in the evening of April 1 in the Pacific, near the Chilean coast, near the border on the pen. At least 6 people were killed, 900 thousand were evacuated, infrastructure was destroyed, and about 300 dangerous recidivists fled from one of the female prisons.
An earthquake of magnitude 8.2 occurred on the evening of April 1 at 20 hours 46 minutes of local time (2 hours 46 minutes of the night on April 2 by Moscow time) 86 kilometers north-west of the city of Ikika, one of the centers of the Chilean mining industry . Then there were eight more powerful aphthershoks. Immediately after that, in Chile, Peru, and then in the entire Pacific region, the threat of the emergence of the tsunami was announced. In the Chilean coast, after 45 minutes, waves of more than 2 meters height collapsed, causing fires, landslides, roads on the roads and cliffs of communication lines and power lines.
According to the Chilea Ministry of Internal Affairs, five men and one woman were killed, three of them from heart attacks, and several more people are seriously injured. These numbers can still change. According to the country's president Michel Bachelet , now it is still impossible to fully evaluate the damage caused by the earthquake:
- Anxiety in connection with the danger of the tsunami was announced immediately, and, as we see, a very clear evacuation of the population was organized, which helped and collaborated with state bodies. Unfortunately, five people were still killed, their personalities are established. In order to avoid panic and looting in order to protect the lives of people, their property and support the rule of law in the affected areas, all necessary measures have been taken. The government will continue to work as much as it will be necessary in order to quickly eliminate the consequences of the disaster and protect our citizens.
Chilean television channels broadcast numerous videos made by eyewitnesses: people who run out of apartments, houses and stores falling from shelves, swinging chandeliers and colossal congestion on highways caused by panic of the first hours and rubble. In the capital of Santiago, located more than a thousand kilometers south of the epicenter, underground shocks, however, were not even felt, unlike the main city and the actual capital of the La Pas Bolivia, which is located about 470 kilometers to the northeast.
As a result of the earthquake from the women's prison of the city of Ikika, about 300 prisoners were escaped, including dangerous recidivists, about 30 of them were already caught and returned to bars again. The governor of the province of Gonzalo, Privo ordered in connection with this to introduce parts of the army and the National Guard into the city.
Anxiety in connection with the possible tsunami was declared in all Latin American countries that have access to the Pacific Ocean, up to Northern Mexico, and even on the USA of the USA. Danger does not threaten other states in the Asia-Pacific region.
Chile is one of the most seismically active states of the world, which is included in the famous Pacific volcanic fire ring with a circle of 40 thousand kilometers , consisting of a continuous series of volcanoes and tectonic faults and conditionally walking along the borders of the entire ocean, from New Zealand and New Guinea to Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, the Kuril Islands and the Kuril Islands Kamchatka, then through Alaska along the entire western coast of the North and South America to the Antarctic. One of the largest earthquakes in the world in recent years that caused the strongest tsunami occurred in the central provinces of the country on February 27, 2010 - then, according to official figures, 802 people were killed, and, according to various estimates, amounted to $ 15 to 30 billion.
And on May 22, 1960, also in the central part of Chili, 435 kilometers south of Santiago, the so -called great, or Valdiva, an earthquake of magnitude more than 9 and a half. Then, mainly from the tsunami, more than 6 thousand people died - the height of the waves, the remains of which, having passed the entire ocean, reached Japan, exceeded 10 meters.
An earthquake of magnitude 8.2 occurred on the evening of April 1 at 20 hours 46 minutes of local time (2 hours 46 minutes of the night on April 2 by Moscow time) 86 kilometers north-west of the city of Ikika, one of the centers of the Chilean mining industry . Then there were eight more powerful aphthershoks. Immediately after that, in Chile, Peru, and then in the entire Pacific region, the threat of the emergence of the tsunami was announced. In the Chilean coast, after 45 minutes, waves of more than 2 meters height collapsed, causing fires, landslides, roads on the roads and cliffs of communication lines and power lines.
Residents of the city of Antofagasta are waiting for an alarming night on the street
According to the Chilea Ministry of Internal Affairs, five men and one woman were killed, three of them from heart attacks, and several more people are seriously injured. These numbers can still change. According to the country's president Michel Bachelet , now it is still impossible to fully evaluate the damage caused by the earthquake:
- Anxiety in connection with the danger of the tsunami was announced immediately, and, as we see, a very clear evacuation of the population was organized, which helped and collaborated with state bodies. Unfortunately, five people were still killed, their personalities are established. In order to avoid panic and looting in order to protect the lives of people, their property and support the rule of law in the affected areas, all necessary measures have been taken. The government will continue to work as much as it will be necessary in order to quickly eliminate the consequences of the disaster and protect our citizens.
The evacuation of the inhabitants of the large city of Antofagast in the north of Chile. Night from 1 to 2 April
Chilean television channels broadcast numerous videos made by eyewitnesses: people who run out of apartments, houses and stores falling from shelves, swinging chandeliers and colossal congestion on highways caused by panic of the first hours and rubble. In the capital of Santiago, located more than a thousand kilometers south of the epicenter, underground shocks, however, were not even felt, unlike the main city and the actual capital of the La Pas Bolivia, which is located about 470 kilometers to the northeast.
Topographic map of Chile
As a result of the earthquake from the women's prison of the city of Ikika, about 300 prisoners were escaped, including dangerous recidivists, about 30 of them were already caught and returned to bars again. The governor of the province of Gonzalo, Privo ordered in connection with this to introduce parts of the army and the National Guard into the city.
Anxiety in connection with the possible tsunami was declared in all Latin American countries that have access to the Pacific Ocean, up to Northern Mexico, and even on the USA of the USA. Danger does not threaten other states in the Asia-Pacific region.
Chile is one of the most seismically active states of the world, which is included in the famous Pacific volcanic fire ring with a circle of 40 thousand kilometers , consisting of a continuous series of volcanoes and tectonic faults and conditionally walking along the borders of the entire ocean, from New Zealand and New Guinea to Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, the Kuril Islands and the Kuril Islands Kamchatka, then through Alaska along the entire western coast of the North and South America to the Antarctic. One of the largest earthquakes in the world in recent years that caused the strongest tsunami occurred in the central provinces of the country on February 27, 2010 - then, according to official figures, 802 people were killed, and, according to various estimates, amounted to $ 15 to 30 billion.
And on May 22, 1960, also in the central part of Chili, 435 kilometers south of Santiago, the so -called great, or Valdiva, an earthquake of magnitude more than 9 and a half. Then, mainly from the tsunami, more than 6 thousand people died - the height of the waves, the remains of which, having passed the entire ocean, reached Japan, exceeded 10 meters.