This quake was so strong it shifted the axis of the earth!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35662192/ns/technology_and_science-space/?GT1=43001

So far the death toll is much lower than many other earthquakes thankfully. I think the buildings were better built than those in Haiti. It's still early though so they may not have even reached all the areas of destruction yet.  I think Haiti's deaths are 150,000 - 200,000 now. Let's hope that Chile is nowhere close to that at all.

Seems there has been a lot of very powerful earthqukes the last couple years ... even the last few months. The planet is changing. Here's a map I found that shows earthquakes in the last week ...most circle the Pacific Ocean

http://earthquakes.tafoni.net/