taking matters into their own hands. we're hearing growing reports of looting and angry clashes with security guards trying to hold them back. in some cases, stores have been torched. two days after that massive 8.8 massive earthquake, the official death toll now stand at 723. and more than 2 million people are affected one way or another. cnn's karl penhaul is in the quake zone. >> reporter: we're on main street in a fishing town in south central chile and we're on the main street in the town. and look what's here. now, that's a 70 ton sardine fishing vessel and it was washed ashore about 600 yards, in fact, by a tsunami wave that followed about an hour after that earthquake. and the inhabitants say that as soon as they heard that earthquake, they ran out of their homes and headed for higher ground. that was, they say, against advice for members of the navy