Chile and Haiti: A Tale of Two Earthquakes (Time.com)

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The asphalt on the Bureo bridge along highway 5 is seen extremely cracked leaving the route cut to traffic near Mulchen, Chile a day after a huge 8.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Chile. Rescue teams in Chile raced Sunday to find survivors in mountains of rubble after one of the biggest earthquakes on record killed more than 300 people and left scores trapped in the ruins.(AFP/Daniel Garcia)Time.com – The Chile quake was 500 times stronger than the Haiti quake, so why did it cause so much less destruction?


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