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Share First the outbreak of October 18, then the pandemic. How do Chileans experience these social phenomena? That is the focus of this multimedia project that brings together visual, sound and written stories with reflections on this period in Chile. It was the end of 2019, and, pre-school, living in Chile already felt very different. A generation that never knew about curfews used to hear those words and announcements that are now part of the daily news. There, in the talks held by the School of Anthropology to process that moment in the country, students and teachers wondered how it would...
Social media are playing a major role in the aftermath of the earthquake. people around chile are seusingt to send messages and find friends and family. >> reporter: if you look at google.com right now, they have added a link below the search box reading 8.8 magnitude quake in chile, learn more. similar to the efforts in haiti, they are showing information for donations and those looking for missing relatives. so far more than 2200 submissions have been sent. here you are seeing an interactive map on which they have plotted the locations of the first quake incident and subsequent aftershocks. ...
How to prepare for the impending tsunami. safety procedures as well as links to emergency agencies. what we are seeing right now are two major efforts. one is to help those preparing for the tsunami, and the other still, let's not forget, to help those in chile. a short while ago i reached out via web cam to one woman in d.c. from chile. she has been using her technology and resources and connections to share information online. perhaps we don't have that for you at this moment. we have another group that is doing it on a bigger scale. you may remember a group called usea haiti. they were inst...
2,200 submissions have been sent. also you see this interactive map they created. they plotted locations of the first quake incident and the subsequent aftershocks. we mentioned another group taking part in this. it's called crisis mapping. they were instrumental in doing this after haiti's devastating quake and took part in daily web cam conference calls with the u.s. state department and help connect all the dots popping up online. one of their directors patrick myer tells me what similarities these efforts share. >> we are going to be mapping for the chile platform using the same categories...