It is three o‘clock in the morning. Joaquin Gonzales, a 23-year-old man from Chile is lying in his bed. Suddenly the earth starts shaking. Glass, plates, everything is smashed on the floor and shatters into thousand pieces. Car alarms and barking dogs can be heard from the distance. „Go and get the girls“, Joaquin‘s wife screams desperately. He runs, when all of a sudden the lights go out.
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A few hours later the aftershocks have finally stopped as well. Joaquin and his family are lucky, they survived, but many died. All in all 200 people fell victims to Mother Nature in this night. The earthquake left a trail of destruction: destroyed buildings and snapped power poles are now defining the landscape.
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This is not a rare thing to happen in Chile. The country lies in the middle of the Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Basin of the Pacific Ocean that is prone to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
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