Chile quake far bigger except less deadly than Haiti
Mar 01, 2010 I Earthquakes.PARIS — The Chile earthquake unconfined around 1,000 times more power than the one that overcome Haiti in January, except than left 200 times less fatalities. Aided personnel in Chile are still finds for the survivors of the earthquake which struck on Saturday. More than 700 peoples are now believed to have died, & 2 million have missed their homes.
Chile is a more successful country, by economic output per head of the population more than 10 times better than Haiti. That has meant that buildings in common are better built, but Chile was also better organized. Public in Chile knew the secured places to go to when the earthquake hit.
Tomorrow a field hospital is arriving to conception from Argentina! One more benefit for the Chilean quake was that its epicenter was 21 miles underground, off-shore & 70 miles from the adjacent big city, Concepcion. The energy from earthquakes falls the more away you are from the centre. The Haitian quake on the added hand over was only 8 miles underground & right on the edge of Port-au-Prince.