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__Chile Earthquake 2010__ // “ //**// Fourteen-year-old Thaire Salas(ph) says her house wasn’t damaged, but she still can’t sleep. “I lay down to sleep and I pray”, Salas says. “I pray and pray and pray and nothing happens to me,” she says. “Nothing happens to me” //** //**(****Hansen).**// That is what many families are thinking who were living in Chile during the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on February 27, 2010. 1.5 million people were moved from their homes because they either got knocked down or major damage was done and it is not safe to live in (Science Behind Earthquakes). Many countries helped Chile with recovering from this earthquake. Chile has recently had the largest earthquakes in the world because, there has been a history of earthquakes in Chile, over $4million was given from other countries, and history and close families and friends have been lost. media type="youtube" key="3hDuDS6EOms" height="349" width="425"

"2010 Chile earthquake damage." //funky gossip.// 3 June 2011. Web. 3 June 2011. [|citation]

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