During what should have been the last hurrah of Chile’s summer vacation, the country was rocked by a 8.8-magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest in history, leaving more than 300 dead, more than 1 million homes damaged and thousands homeless and without water and electricity.
Read the full story at The Santiago Times.
And then check out the Christian Monitor to find out why Chile’s earthquake was much stronger than Haiti’s but caused far less damage.