can you compare the two different earthquakes in terms of the magnitude and the shear devastation resulting from it? you bring up a great point. you see an 8.8 magnitude quake in chile and the earthquake in haiti was a 7.0. you think 8.8, my gosh, so much stronger and it is. in fact, it s about 500 times stronger. a couple of differences, though. that quake in haiti was only about eight miles deep. so there isn t as much earth above where the quake happened to absorb some of that shock energy. this quake in chile was 21 miles deep, so it s the deeper quake, so on the earth, at the surface level, you might not feel the strength of that. the other big difference is the quake in haiti happened 15 miles from port-au-prince where all the population is. this one happened around 200 miles from santiago, their biggest city. there is a bigger distance to cover and that helps. you see bridges like that that we were getting the video in of,