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Ground shifts suddenly. probably in the matter of just a few seconds, the whole earthquake probably takes about a minute. that's what caused the ground to shake. >> so would that be visible. could you literally see an open area of fault line i'm just going to say, i'm from california and the scene of the san andreas fault line, you could see where the san andreas has split the earth. is that what you're going to see in chile? >> caller: it's similar, but the motion is in a different direction. in california, the ground is shifting to the north and onto the east, to the south. so at the sideway...

Lot better today than yesterday and the day before. new york has canceled over 600 flights. that's a lot of people who weren't going anywhere. today the airlines are doing what they can to get back on schedule. but here and jfk and laguardia, over 400 flights were canceled. the weather will be cooperating today. we are going to see snow showers throughout the day, but not anything to really worry about, maybe an inch or two of accumulation. still pretty cold out here as well. but flying conditions should be fine for today. really now just a matter of flushing out this system and getting all th...

Wave may be just centimeters high. maybe ten centimeters high. but it traveled at upwards of 500 miles per hour. so this is moving at the speed of a jet engine. as a jet would go across. and the wave, what happens is the wave as it gets into shallower area, begins to draw up. and then as we know from banda aceh, it draws it away from the shore. and also like the sea goes out and then it all comes tumbling in. that's why it was often called a tidal wave. anyway. juan fernandez island is a very rocky, almost mountainous island. and so it's very possible, even though the lobstering business is of...

Going to be more quakes striking, aftershocks, about 15 have struck so far, ranging from 5.0 to 6.9 on the richter scale. so if you look at that that's just barely beneath that which we had strike in haiti at 7.0. let's get now to nbc's kerry sanders, who joins us from miami. kerry, i understand that you've been in chile many times. give us a sense of this community and how it is, that it has withstood an 8.8 earthquake as well as it has. we're seeing pictures of destruction. but you would think it would be flattened at this number. >> reporter: well, a couple of things, first of all, the epic...

We hear the president saying that the death toll is at 70. i would say from my experience, i fear that it's going to be much higher. it's very hard to get a calculation of how many people have died, in the darkness, with phone lines down. and just trying to get communication as people are quite frankly still in a panic. there have been at least 15 aftershocks. we're also talking, as you know, about the tsunami threat. and while you've mentioned hawaii and other locations, i've been to an island off the coast of chile called robinson crusoe, which is in the path of the tsunami. and there's a ve...