By Carlos Morales

Epoch Times Staff

Created: Feb 28, 2010 Last Updated: Feb 28, 2010
Two men walk past a building in Valparaiso that was
heavily damaged by a huge 8.8-magnitude
earthquake that rocked Chile on Feb. 27, 2010.
(Felipe Gamboa/AFP/Getty Images)
Over 250 Significant
Earthquakes Shook the
World in Past 7 Days


CARACAS, Venezuela In the
past seven days there have been
more than 258 recorded
earthquakes of a magnitude higher
than 4.5 on the Richter's scale.
Chile alone has already experienced
81 aftershocks at a rate of 4 per
hour since the first big earthquake
of 8.8 struck on Saturday, Feb. 27.
Tsunami alarms sounded across the
world.

Apart from the abundant seismic
activity in Chile, moderate to
strong earthquakes have occurred
in several countries, among them:
Ecuador (M5.3; 28/2/2010),
Argentina (M6.3; 27/2/2010),
Afghanistan (M5.7; 27/2/2010), Philippines (M5.7;26/02/2010), Japan/Ryukyu Islands
(M7.0; 26/2/2010), Guatemala (M5.6; 23/2/2010), Haiti(M4.7; 23/2/2010), Iran(M5.1;
23/2/2010), Tonga(M5.7; 22/2/2010 with replicas of approximately higher than M5), and 2
earthquakes in Mainland China of M5.4 and M5.0 in the regions of Xizang, Yunnan on Feb.
26 and 27.

In response to expected tsunami generated by the Chile earthquake, the Japanese
government had issued a red alert for the prefectures of Aomori, Iwate, and Miyagi, while
the rest of the Japanese Pacific coast remained in orange alert. Fortunately, Japan reported
waves of only about 4 feet Sunday afternoon on the wide coastal areas of its Pacific side.

More than 700 people have been reported dead so far since Chile's devastating earthquake
of 8.8 on Saturday. Chile is now in a state of chaos as hundreds of people have been looting
businesses and selling basic products like water and food at four times their cost. The
authorities are currently trying to regulate the situation.
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Chile's earthquake was predicted by a documentary from National Geographic in 2006, but
was censored by the Chilean government due to fear that the news would cause panic.

In 1960, Chile suffered the biggest earthquake ever recorded in human history, one with a
magnitude of 9.5 Richter. This terrible event caused thousands of deaths, and the country's
terrain was changed forever.

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