Strong Earthquake Shakes Chile

Posted by NG Kids in News Bites on March 3, 2010
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On February 27, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off of the shore of Chile, which is on the western side of South America. The quake damaged buildings, bridges, and power lines. It also caused tsunamis that battered Chile’s coast and even reached as far away as Hawaii.

This quake was stronger than the one that occurred in Haiti in January. It was even strong enough to change the Earth’s axis and shorten the length of a day by 1.26 millionths of a second.

Find out more about the Chile earthquake on National Geographic News.

Read about the January earthquake in Haiti on News Bites.

Learn more about earthquakes on nationalgeographic.com.


Photograph by Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images

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Comments

  1. emshemie3
    March 5, 2010, 11:39 am

    It is really sad. America needs to keep doing all she can to help these unfortunate countries!

  2. photographyrocks247
    March 5, 2010, 7:15 pm

    That is so sad! I can’t believe that happened to them.

  3. pielover
    December 31, 2012, 11:03 am

    The front cover is so disapointing to look at. :( =(

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