Chile Earthquake Moved Entire City 10 Feet to the West

via wired.com

The red arrows represent the centimeters of movement. The city of Concepcion moved 3.04 meters.

"Precise GPS measurements from before and after the earthquake, the fifth largest ever recorded by seismographs, show that the country’s capital, Santiago, moved 11 inches west. Even Buenos Aires, nearly 800 miles from the epicenter, shifted an inch. The image above uses red arrows to represent the relative direction and magnitude of the ground movement in the vicinity of the quake."

I'm sure Creationists at Liberty U. can explain this much better.

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Government Regulations And Preparations Saved Chile

"Earthquake scientists, building engineers and political scientists in Chile and the United States agreed that even though half a million homes were heavily damaged during more than 120 seconds of shaking, the fact that so many Chileans survived was a testament to the nation's enactment and enforcement of stringent building codes."

via washingtonpost.com

As devastating as Chile's quake was, government regulations and preparations prevented it from being even worse.

"Chile has relatively low levels of corruption, making enforcement of building codes more credible than in other Latin American countries; its rank on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index is 25, just six spots below the United States, while Haiti's is 168."

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