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		<description><![CDATA[The below is an forwarded email that I have received recently. I am not doubting it, I am kinda believing it. And the &#8220;Six Degrees&#8221; book by author Mark Lynas is simply logic in every aspects. What humans had done to the Mother Earth, including myself. Nobody ought to say that they did not hurt [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The below is an forwarded email that I have received recently. I am not doubting it, I am kinda believing it. And the &#8220;Six Degrees&#8221; book by author Mark Lynas is simply logic in every aspects. What humans had done to the Mother Earth, including myself. Nobody ought to say that they did not hurt the Earth. Even if the Mayan&#8217;s Prophecy about 2012 is not happening on the predicted date, the Earth will still destroyed by us, human.</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: teal;">近三次大地震竟然出现惊人巧合</span><span style="color: teal;"> </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: teal;">5 </span><span style="color: teal;">月</span><span style="color: teal;"> 1 2 </span><span style="color: teal;">日</span><span style="color: teal;"> 8.0 </span><span style="color: teal;">汶川</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: teal;">1 </span><span style="color: teal;">月</span><span style="color: teal;"> 1 2 </span><span style="color: teal;">日</span><span style="color: teal;"> 7.3 </span><span style="color: teal;">海地</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: teal;">2 </span><span style="color: teal;">月</span><span style="color: teal;"> 2 7 </span><span style="color: teal;">日</span><span style="color: teal;"> 8.8.</span><span style="color: teal;">智利</span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: teal;">横看为</span><span style="color: teal;">512 112  227</span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: teal;">竖看为</span><span style="color: teal;">512 112  227</span> </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: teal;">传说中的，横竖都是死</span><span style="color: teal;">?</span> </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: teal;">汶川、海地、智利</span><span style="color: teal;">3</span><span style="color: teal;">次大地震时间上的巧合（</span><span style="color: teal;">512</span><span style="color: teal;">、</span><span style="color: teal;">112</span><span style="color: teal;">、</span><span style="color: teal;">227</span><span style="color: teal;">，后两位分别为</span><span style="color: teal;">12</span><span style="color: teal;">、</span><span style="color: teal;">12</span><span style="color: teal;">、</span><span style="color: teal;">27</span><span style="color: teal;">），使越来越多的人相信玛雅预言的世界末日（</span><span style="color: teal;">2012 12</span><span style="color: teal;">月</span><span style="color: teal;">27</span><span style="color: teal;">日）真的就要到来的思想进一步激化</span> </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: teal;">这是刚才朋友转来的，</span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: teal;">看来地球大灾难真的在进程中。。。</span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="color: teal;">现在就珍惜眼前的一切吧~<br />
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<td width="99%" bgcolor="#ececec"><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: red;">如果</span></strong><strong><span style="color: red;">2012</span></strong><strong><span style="color: red;">世界 末日真的发生，请不要惊讶。</span></strong></span></span><strong><span style="color: red;"><br />
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 標楷體; color: red; font-size: small;">不只 是因为玛雅传说，而是科学证明。</span></strong><strong><span style="color: red;"><br />
</span></strong><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: red;">升</span></strong><strong><span style="color: red;">2</span></strong><strong><span style="color: red;">度</span></strong><strong><span style="color: red;">C</span></strong><strong><span style="color: red;">的温度 将让地球被毁灭。</span></strong></span></span><strong><span style="color: red;"></p>
<p></span></strong><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: red;">從</span></strong><strong><span style="color: red;">1</span></strong><strong><span style="color: red;">度</span></strong><strong><span style="color: red;">C</span></strong><strong><span style="color: red;">到</span></strong><strong><span style="color: red;">6</span></strong><strong><span style="color: red;">度</span></strong><strong><span style="color: red;">C</span></strong> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">英國作家萊納斯（Mark Lynas）閱讀了上千篇科學論文，走訪多位氣候和環境專家，以兩年時間，寫出《六 度的變化》（Six  Degrees）一書。 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">書中 預測地球每升溫1度C，會帶來的後果；當升溫6度C，就是人類滅亡的臨界點。 </span></span><strong><br />
</strong><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>升高</strong><strong>1</strong><strong>度</strong><strong>C</strong><strong>：</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">農業 地帶會沙漠化，沙塵暴覆蓋城市；三分之一地表的淡水（河流和湖泊）會干涸；低窪的海岸地區將被淹沒；北極熊、海象和海豹絕跡。 </span></span><strong><br />
</strong><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>升高</strong><strong>2</strong><strong>度</strong><strong>C</strong><strong>：</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">歐洲 的夏天，像撒哈拉沙漠般火熱，人們死於熱浪；大火燒毀大量森林；格陵蘭冰原徹底消融，全球海平面升高7米；地球上有三分之一的物種面臨死亡威脅。 </span></span><strong><br />
</strong><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>升高</strong><strong>3</strong><strong>度</strong><strong>C</strong><strong>：</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">亞馬 遜森林死亡；超級颱風將肆虐沿海的城市；紐約市已經泡在水裡；印度次大陸和非洲發生大饑荒。 </span></span><strong><br />
</strong><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>升高</strong><strong>4</strong><strong>度</strong><strong>C</strong><strong>：</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">永凍 土解凍，雪水讓全球暖化加速；英國的大部份地區因為嚴重淹水無法住人；人類被迫遷出地中海區；全球爆發糧食危機。 </span></span><strong><br />
</strong><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>升高</strong><strong>5</strong><strong>度</strong><strong>C</strong><strong>：</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">海底 下的海床釋出的甲烷加速暖化；南北極的冰層融化；雨林已經燒光、變成沙漠；人類為了尋找食物開始大遷徙，過著動物一樣的生活。 </span></span><strong><br />
</strong><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>升高</strong><strong>6</strong><strong>度</strong><strong>C</strong><strong>：</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">連北 極也沒有冰了；歐洲是一片沙漠；地球大部份地區已經不適合人類居住；沿海城市成為廢墟。 </span></span><strong><br />
</strong><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>超過</strong><strong>6</strong><strong>度</strong><strong>C</strong><strong>：</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">暖化 完全失控，任何努力都是徒勞了；超級暴風雨、洪水、硫化氫氣體、以及甲烷火球摧毀地球；人類滅亡，地球只有黴菌能夠存活；地球回到1億5000萬年前恐龍滅絕的年代。</span></span></td>
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<p><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">聯合 國的跨政府氣候變遷專家小組（IPCC）報告指出，人類的活 動，包括土地利用、工業生產、城市化和生活型態，都排放大量溫室氣體（Greenhouse Gas），從而造成地球升溫。 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">地球升溫人類造成地球升溫的種種因素，超過90%是人類自己造成。 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">人類 知道溫度上升會毀滅世界，但是，卻依照熱衷追求高排放的經濟成長模式，也習慣於高消耗的生活方式，樂此不疲，不會輕易放棄。 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">就好 像一缸水裡的青蛙，水的溫度逐漸的升高，青蛙始終無動於衷，甚至愜意無比；直到溫度過了臨界點，它已經跳不出水缸，活活被煮死。 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">青蛙 沒有意識到水溫上升，所以不會跳出水缸。人類呢？ </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">美國和中國是世界兩大二氧化碳排放量最高的國家，在哥本哈根峰會上，不但 無法攜手合作，反倒是針鋒相對，歸咎對方；在堅持本身利益的同時，要對方作出更大讓步。 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">哥本 哈根大會沒有讓人類跳出水缸，大國之間相互扯後腿，逼使大家都留在水缸。 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">一紙“記錄在案”的氣候協議，只是同意減少排放溫室氣體，卻沒有制訂目標，也沒有執行方 案。 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;">窮國 與島國皆大失所望。面對淹沒威脅的太平洋小島圖瓦盧代表說，這是對未來的背叛；非洲蘇丹的代表說，協議是判處非洲死刑，形同大屠殺。 </span></span><span style="color: red;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: 標楷體;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">救救我们 的地球！！！</span></span></span></p>
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		<title>Tsunami warning lifted; Waves reach Japan, Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO – The tsunami from Chile&#8217;s devastating earthquake hit Japan&#8217;s main islands and the shores of Russia on Sunday, but the smaller-than-expected waves prompted the lifting of a Pacific-wide alert. Hawaii and other Pacific islands were also spared. Hundreds of thousands of people fled shorelines for higher ground after the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in [...]]]></description>
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<p>TOKYO – The tsunami from Chile&#8217;s devastating earthquake hit Japan&#8217;s main islands and the shores of Russia on Sunday, but the smaller-than-expected waves prompted the lifting of a Pacific-wide alert. Hawaii and other Pacific islands were also spared.</p>
<p>Hundreds of thousands of people fled shorelines for higher ground after the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii warned 53 nations and territories that a tsunami had been generated by Saturday&#8217;s magnitude-8.8 earthquake. After the center lifted its warning, some countries kept their own watches in place as a precaution.</p>
<p>In Japan, the biggest wave hit the northern island of Hokkaido. There were no immediate reports of damage from the four-foot (1.2-meter) wave, though some piers were briefly flooded.</p>
<p>As it crossed the Pacific, the tsunami dealt populated areas — including the U.S. state of Hawaii — only a glancing blow.</p>
<p>The tsunami raised fears Pacific nations could suffer from disastrous waves like those that killed 230,000 people around the Indian Ocean in December 2004, which happened with little-to-no warning and much confusion about the impending waves.</p>
<p>Officials said the opposite occurred after the Chile quake: They overstated their predictions of the size of the waves and the threat.</p>
<p>&#8220;We expected the waves to be bigger in Hawaii, maybe about 50 percent bigger than they actually were,&#8221; said Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist for the warning center. &#8220;We&#8217;ll be looking at that.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Japan, fearing the tsunami could gain force as it moved closer, put all of its eastern coastline on tsunami alert and ordered hundreds of thousands of residents in low-lying areas to seek higher ground as waves raced across the Pacific at hundreds of miles (kilometers) per hour.</p>
<p>Japan is particularly sensitive to the tsunami threat.</p>
<p>In July 1993 a tsunami triggered by a major earthquake off Japan&#8217;s northern coast killed more than 200 people on the small island of Okushiri. A stronger quake near Chile in 1960 created a tsunami that killed about 140 people in Japan.</p>
<p>Towns along northern coasts issued evacuation orders to 400,000 residents, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said. NHK switched to emergency mode, broadcasting a map with the areas in most danger and repeatedly urging caution.</p>
<p>As the wave crossed the ocean, Japan&#8217;s Meteorological Agency said waves of up to 10 feet (three meters) could hit the northern prefectures of Aomori, Iwate and Miyagi, but the first waves were much smaller.</p>
<p>People packed their families into cars, but there were no reports of panic or traffic jams. Fishermen secured their boats, and police patrolled beaches, using sirens and loudspeakers to warn people to leave the area.</p>
<p>In Kesennuma, northern Japan, seawater flooded streets near the coast for about four hours before receding but caused little impact to people.</p>
<p>But the tsunami passed gently by most locations.</p>
<p>By the time the tsunami hit Hawaii — a full 16 hours after the quake — officials had already spent the morning blasting emergency sirens, blaring warnings from airplanes and ordering residents to higher ground.</p>
<p>Picturesque beaches were desolate, million-dollar homes were evacuated, shops in Waikiki were closed and residents filled supermarkets and gas stations to stock up on supplies. But after the morning scare, the islands were back to paradise by the afternoon.</p>
<p>Waves hit California, but barely registered amid stormy weather. A surfing contest outside San Diego went on as planned.</p>
<p>In Tonga, where up to 50,000 people fled inland hours ahead of the tsunami, the National Disaster Office had reports of a wave up to 6.5 feet (two meters) high hitting a small northern island, deputy director Mali&#8217;u Takai said. There were no initial indications of damage.</p>
<p>Nine people died in Tonga last September when the Samoa tsunami slammed the small northern island of Niuatoputapu, wiping out half of the main settlement.</p>
<p>In Samoa, where 183 people died in the tsunami five months ago, thousands remained Sunday morning in the hills above the coasts on the main island of Upolu, but police said there were no reports of waves or sea surges hitting the South Pacific nation.</p>
<p>At least 20,000 people abandoned their homes in southeastern Philippine villages and took shelter in government buildings or fled to nearby mountains overnight. Provincial officials scrambled to alert villagers and prepare contingency plans, according to the National Disaster Coordinating Council.</p>
<p>Philippine navy and coast guard vessels, along with police, were ordered to stand by for possible evacuation but the alert was lifted late Sunday afternoon.</p>
<p>Indonesia, which suffered the brunt of the 2004 disaster, had been included in the tsunami warning Saturday, but the country&#8217;s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said Sunday there was no tsunami risk for the archipelago as it was too far from the quake&#8217;s epicenter.</p>
<p>On New Zealand&#8217;s Chatham Islands earlier Sunday, officials reported a wave measured at 6.6 feet (two meters).</p>
<p>Several hundred people in the North Island coastal cities of Gisborne and Napier were evacuated from their homes and from camp grounds, while residents in low-lying areas on South Island&#8217;s Banks Peninsula were alerted to be ready to evacuate.</p>
<p>Australia&#8217;s Bureau of Meteorology canceled its tsunami warning Sunday evening.</p>
<p>&#8220;The main tsunami waves have now passed all Australian locations,&#8221; the bureau said.</p>
<p>No damage was reported in Australia from small waves that were recorded in New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Norfolk Island, about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) northeast of Sydney.</p>
<p>New Zealand&#8217;s Ministry of Civil Defense and Emergency Management downgraded its tsunami warning to an advisory status, which it planned to keep in place overnight.</p>
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<p>Associated Press writers Mark Niesse and Audrey McAvoy in Honolulu, Mari Yamaguchi and Malcolm Foster in Tokyo, Ray Lilley in Wellington, New Zealand, Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, Debby Wu in Taipei, Taiwan, and Kristen Gelineau in Sydney contributed to this report.</p>
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		<title>Rescuers struggle to save lives after Chile quake</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CONCEPCION, Chile – Rescuers edged their way toward quake victims trapped in a toppled apartment block early Sunday even as looters stole food and robbed banks after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Chile. Authorities put the death toll from Saturday&#8217;s magnitude-8.8 quake at 214, but believed the number would grow. They said [...]]]></description>
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<p>CONCEPCION, Chile – Rescuers edged their way toward quake victims trapped in a toppled apartment block early Sunday even as looters stole food and robbed banks after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Chile.</p>
<p>Authorities put the death toll from Saturday&#8217;s magnitude-8.8 quake at 214, but believed the number would grow. They said 1.5 million Chileans were affected and 500,000 homes severely damaged by the mammoth temblor.</p>
<p>A tsunami caused by the quake that swept across the Pacific killed several people on a Chilean island but caused little damage in other countries, after precautionary evacuations of hundreds of thousands of people. The tsunami warning was lifted a day after the earthquake.</p>
<p>President Michelle Bachelet, who leaves office March 11, declared a &#8220;state of catastrophe&#8221; in central Chile. &#8220;It was a catastrophe of devastating consequences,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Police said more than 100 people died in Concepcion, the largest city near the epicenter with more than 200,000 people. The university was among the buildings that caught fire around the city as gas and power lines snapped. Many streets were littered with rubble from edifices and inmates escaped from a nearby prison.</p>
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<p>Police used water cannon and tear gas to scatter people who forced open the doors of the Lider supermarket in Concepcion, hauling away everything from diapers to dehydrated milk to a kitchen stove.</p>
<p>Across the Bio Bio River in San Pedro, others cleared out a shopping mall. A video store was set ablaze, two automatic teller machines were broken open, a bank was robbed and a supermarket emptied, its floor littered with mashed plums, scattered dog food and smashed liquor bottles.</p>
<p>The largest building damaged in Concepion was a newly opened 11-story apartment that toppled backward, trapping an estimated 60 people inside apartments where the floors suddenly became vertical and the contents of every room slammed down onto rear walls.</p>
<p>&#8220;It fell at the moment the earthquake began,&#8221; said 4th Lt. Juan Schulmeyer of Concepcion&#8217;s 7th Firefighter Company, pointing to where the foundation collapsed. A full 24 hours later, only 16 people had been pulled out alive, and six bodies had been recovered.</p>
<p>Rescuers heard a woman call out at 11 p.m. Saturday from what seemed like the 6th floor, but hours later they were making slow progress in reaching her. Rescuers were working with two power saws and an electric hammer on a generator, but their supply of gas was running out and it was taking them a frustrating hour and a half to cut each hole through the concrete.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult working in the dark with aftershocks, and inside it&#8217;s complicated. The apartments are totally destroyed. You have to work with great caution,&#8221; said Paulo Klein, who was leading a group of rescue specialists from Puerto Montt. They flew in on an air force plane with just the equipment they could carry. Heavy equipment was coming later along with 12 other rescuers.</p>
<p>The quake tore apart houses, bridges and highways, and Chileans near the epicenter were thrown from their beds by the force of the mega-quake, which was felt as far away as Sao Paulo in Brazil — 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) to the east.</p>
<p>The full extent of damage remained unclear. Ninety aftershocks of magnitude 5 or greater shuddered across the disaster prone Andean nation within 24 hours of the initial quake. One was nearly as powerful as Haiti&#8217;s devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.</p>
<p>In the village of Reumen, a tractor trailer slammed into a dangling pedestrian overpass and 40 tons of concrete and steel crunched the truck, covering Chile&#8217;s main highway with smashed grapes, tomatoes and cucumbers — one of several overpasses toppled along the highway.</p>
<p>Truck driver Jaime Musso, 53, thought his truck was being buffeted by strong winds and by the time he saw the overpass hanging down over Highway 5 there was no chance of stopping, so he aimed for the spot where he thought he would cause the least damage and brought down the overpass onto his truck. He said he survived &#8220;by millimeters.&#8221;</p>
<p>As night fell Saturday, about a dozen men and children sat around a bonfire in the remains of their homes in Curico, a town 122 miles (196 kilometers) south of the capital, Santiago.</p>
<p>&#8220;We were sleeping when we felt the quake, very strongly. I got up and went out the door. When I looked back my bed was covered in rubble,&#8221; said survivor Claudio Palma.</p>
<p>In the capital Santiago, 200 miles (325 kilometers) to the northeast of the epicenter, the national Fine Arts Museum was badly damaged and an apartment building&#8217;s two-story parking lot pancaked, smashing about 50 cars.</p>
<p>Santiago&#8217;s airport was closed and its subway shut down. Chile&#8217;s main seaport, in Valparaiso, was ordered closed while damage was assessed. Two oil refineries shut down. The state-run Codelco, the world&#8217;s largest copper producer, halted work at two of its mines, but said it expected them to resume operations quickly.</p>
<p>The jolt set off a tsunami that swamped San Juan Bautista village on Robinson Crusoe Island off Chile, killing at least five people and leaving 11 missing, said Guillermo de la Masa, head of the government emergency bureau for the Valparaiso region.</p>
<p>On the mainland, several huge waves inundated part of the major port city of Talcahuano, near hard-hit Concepcion. A large boat was swept more than a block inland.</p>
<p>The surge of water raced across the Pacific, setting off alarm sirens in Hawaii, Polynesia and Tonga, but the tsunami waves proved small and did little damage as they reached as far as Japan.</p>
<p>Robert Williams, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey, said the Chilean quake was hundreds of times more powerful than Haiti&#8217;s magnitude-7 quake, though it was deeper and cost far fewer lives.</p>
<p>The largest earthquake ever recorded struck the same area of Chile on May 22, 1960. The magnitude-9.5 quake killed 1,655 people and made 2 million homeless. Saturday&#8217;s quake matched a 1906 temblor off the Ecuadorean coast as the seventh-strongest ever recorded in the world.</p>
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<p>Associated Press writers Roberto Candia in Talca, Chile, Eva Vergara in Curico, Chile, and Eduardo Gallardo in Santiago, Chile, contributed to this report.</p>
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