Even as the people of southern Chile go on to fastener with the rising genocide fee and the extinction wrought by Saturdays large earthquake, most seismologists hold the disadvantage could have been far worse. The 8.8-magnitude trembler that struck Chile early Saturday sunrise was 500 times some-more absolute than the 7.0-magnitude trembler that struck Haiti on Jan 12th of this year. But it caused usually a fragment of the casualties in more aged to the 300,000 people estimated to have died in Haiti. Seismologists indicate that one reason for the disproportion in scale is that Chile enforced construction codes for trembler resistant structures after the experience of a 9.0-magnitude trembler fifty years ago in 1960.
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