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Sunday, February 28, 2010

Massive earthquake strikes Chile




A boy stands amid the rubble of his home after a major earthquake in Santiago February 27, 2010. Chile has called of next week's double bill of friendlies against Costa Rica and North Korea after the massive earthquake which hit the country.


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Houses are flooded in seawater in a section of Kesennuma, northern Japan on Sunday Feb. 28, 2010. Japan, fearing the tsunami could gain force as it moved closer, put all of its eastern coastline on tsunami alert Sunday and ordered hundreds of thousands of residents in low-lying areas to seek higher ground as waves generated by the Chilean earthquake raced across the Pacific at hundreds of miles (kilometers) per hour.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
A flattened vehicle is pictured amid rubble in Curico, south of Santiago. The United States and Europe vowed to come to Chile's aid as relief workers rushed to the Western hemisphere's second enormous earthquake in seven weeks.


(AFP/Martin Bernetti)
 
 
 
 
People gather around a fire on a street fearful of being inside because of after shocks in Concepcion, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010, following a devastating earthquake struck Chile early Saturday Feb. 27, 2010.


 
 
 
 
 
 
Stuffed animals are seen in a destroyed building in Concepcion, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010, following a devastating earthquake struck Chile early Saturday Feb. 27, 2010.


(AP Photo/ Natacha Pisarenko)



 
 
 
An injured person is helped after arriving in Valparaiso from Juan Fernandez Island, Chile. The United States and Europe vowed to come to Chile's aid as relief workers rushed to the Western hemisphere's second enormous earthquake in seven weeks.


(AFP/Felipe Gamboa)

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