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8.8 Earthquake Strikes Central Chile

Because of the devastation to communications, it's hard to get a good picture, but that is one massive quake. Even so, it's not liable to rise to the death toll of Haiti, thank God. So far, numbers are meaningless.

Apparently, the epicenter is in the central Quito province. Buildings are collapsed in Santiago. Chile is much better posed than other Latin American nations to respond, as a result of its enlightened economic policies, but it's still going to be a hard go.

Hawaii and other Pacific islands are under a tsunami warning, as well as California and Alaska. Prayers would be appropriate.

A recent map of the per-capita donations to Haiti showed Canadians at over 2:1 with respect to the US. Those are personal donations, and don't count the cost of the US's massive military response, but in this case it's going to be the personal donations that count most.

Doubleplusundead criticizes the strategy.

Stream live feed as Hawaii braces for impact.

Puerto Escondido ducks glancing blow.

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