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Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Chile, Rebuilding for a Better Future written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 6:02 on the morning of May 21, 1960, one of the greatest earthquakes of recorded history struck the long narrow land of Chile. This earthquake devastated a wide area in the vicinity of the town of Concepción in the central part of the country. Disturbances continued throughout the day. In the afternoon of the following day in an area several hundred miles farther south, two earthquakes occurred half a minute apart; the first centered in the island of Chiloé and the second--one of the most severe ever recorded--occurred in the vicinity of Valdivia. At the same time, a tsunami, or tidal wave, developed off the coast. In Chile it wrought its greatest damage in Puerto Saavedra, Corral, Ancud, and Castro. It moved across the Pacific, extending as far as the Arctic and Indian Oceans and causing extensive damage in such farflung places as California, Hawaii, and Japan. In Chile in the days that followed, fires, floods, landslides, and the threat of erupting volcanoes added to the desolation and suffering. The land settled or split in great fissures. Wide areas were flooded by heavy downpours or by waters that swept in from the sea or from the overflowing lakes. Large landslides occurred, mainly in the lake districts in the provinces of Cautín, Valdiva, Osorno, and Llanquihue. Earthquakes, although none as severe as those of May 21 and 22, continued for many months.--Page 1.
