More than 2 million affected by earthquake, Chile's president says

February 28, 2010
CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html

On Sunday in the morning earthquake of 8.8 magnitude happened in Chile. 2 million people have been affected by this earthquake. 300 people have died and 15 are still missing. This earthquake was a lot higher than the one that happened in Haiti on January that had a magnitude of 7.0. The damage in Chile was very bad in a large area. A 15-story high building collapsed near the city of Concepcion. The president announced that all the events will be canceled for the next 72 hours and that school years will start until March 8 (originally they would start on March 1). The earthquake was at 3:34 a.m. The earthquake was followed with 76 aftershocks with magnitudes of 4.9 or greater.
Our opinion about this news is that people in Central America should rebuilt their homes because the cause of the destruction of homes is the least consideration of building houses. For example, we think that more brick pillars should be built inside the houses because they support the roof so the family and the house are both safe. We think that the world must be alert about this situation on earthquakes because nobody knows what would happen at any time. Many people have comments about a tsunami on Hawaii and Japan. We don’t think that tsunami will be available because a tsunami is processed in 24hours.