Photos from Chile

[Warpy]

Our friends in Boston are on top of things, as usual: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/02/earthquake_in_chile.html


The Seattle Times is also posting photos: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/photogalleries/nationworld2011208213/

[polly7]

1. So sad for these people. n/t.

[ensho]

2. in other pics I noticed cars upturned on parts of roads that were not

cracked or broken. seems like just the shaking of the earth overturned them. wow!

[Warpy]

5. One picture that struck me

was of a man rearranging a (very nice) sofa in a room that no longer had an exterior wall, his face utterly numb.

While the wrecked and burned cars and collapsed bridges might be more dramatic, this picture really brought it home about the shock of losing everything in just a couple of minutes.

I think tornado survivors can relate.

[intheflow]

12. Hurricane survivors, too. n/t

[roamer65]

3. The western side of the Pacific Plate is pushing after...

the past few years of activity on its eastern side. People on the west coast plate boundaries need to be prepared. This earthquake will create new pressure points along this boundary.

[wtmusic]

4. Awful.

At least doors are open on a lot of these vehicles. Hopefully people were able to get out.

[tabatha]

6. They have had 46 aftershocks many in the 5 range.

46th major aftershock, magnitude 5.5, centered off Bio-Bio shore of #Chile - U.S. Geological Survey

http://twitter.com/BreakingNews

[xchrom]

7. Oy - my god -- words fail. Nt

[Chulanowa]

8. Those are terrifying

That magnitude is just staggering

[malaise]

13. Those are mild

This was devastating.

[KingFlorez]

9. Reminds me of the pictures after the Loma Prieta earthquake

Just devastating.

[Cleita]

10. That freeway held up pretty well for the magnitude of the earthquake

considering it flipped cars. Compare that to the freeway collapse in San Francisco during the Loma Prieta quake in 1989.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake#San_Francisco_.E2.80.93_Oakland_Bay_Bridge

[femrap]

11. Picture #5

And there stands a billboard of 'Barbie.' And a blonde one, too. Globalism at its worst.

I am sending all good energy to the people of Chile. They went through a 9.5 in 1960. I understand there are tough building codes as in CA so let's hope the death toll remains low. Things can be replaced....except I could do w/o Barbie.