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Santiago. maybe one of the best ways to find out what's going on is to listen to what the reports are that are coming out from the many different networks and television station that is are covering this story there right now. dan, can you just pop up the sound from one of those? just to see if we are ready to go on that. all right. >> okay. these are two of the anchors there following the situation there now. this is coming in from cnn es panole or cnn chile. what i hear her saying is they are trying to make contact with the secretary to find out what's going on with the schools. they are als...

In this case, where it's a large shake area, but not as big of a shake, but you still get the 8.8 because you multiply those together, there are zero, zero people in the violent and extreme shaking. now, the 5 million in severe to moderate damage, but those numbers are so strikingly different compared to millions, 2.5 million feeling that violent shaking in haiti. and zero feeling it in chile. the reason why is because where it shook there's not that many people. there are not that many people along the coast. people don't live there. you can -- i can zoom all the way in. here, let's just grab...

In the next hours, but it is going to be around this figure. and the distraction all over the country is enormous. there are infrastructure breaches, especially from santiago to the south, and also in some buildings, especially old-fashioned buildings have been destroyed. on the other side, the chilean history is very close to these kinds of tram dids tragedies. they have higher standards for building new buildings. >> mr. ambassador, let me ask you about this then. chile is not foreign to earthquakes. they happen all the time, but to this degree, this 8.1 magnitude quake, give me an idea of e...

To where haiti was struck not long ago. it is important to note, and this is the reason we are here. this is the reason i may soon be on a plane heading down there, it is important to note that this is a significant earthquake. so significant, in fact, that at first we were reporting it may be 1,000 times stronger than what happened in haiti. now it is looking like it may be 500 times more stronger than what happened in haiti. so that kind of sets the table and gives you a pretty good sense of exactly what's going on. >> we have a lot of colleagues working this story. rafael romo is at the int...

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