Poor Chile. What a bad rap it gets sometimes. As a seismically active country, Chile has its fair share of tremors (“temblores” as they’re called here) and they occur almost every day in any given area. Granted, they’re not all major quakes, but regardless of how “big” they may be, the fact remains that there …
Category: earthquake
Big Pictures – Extent of Earthquake
My cousin had this link on his Facebook page and for some reason looking at these images just really made me realize THAT MUCH MORE the extent of this earthquake. There are images from Santiago that I had no idea existed … areas where the earthquake really did do damage. And once again, all I …
The Aftermath
We decided to go to Jumbo (one of the major grocery store chains in Chile) today and it was a madhouse … literally the lines extended farther than I had EVER seen them… note below: In his usual strategic/baller manner, G had the great idea to wait in the “15 items or less” line while …
Ack! Earthquake in Chile!…and I live here.
Sweet BeJeezus, that was scary!! I’m not talking the “normal” kind of earthquake scary either … the kind I knew before today. After living in the SF Bay Area for over 29 years, I thought I was pretty accustomed to feeling the ground move every so often. But no matter how accustomed you think you …