Whoa! This year the earthquake’s ain’t no joke. A 8.8 Magnitude hit Chile this morning killing at least 16 people but the death toll is still rising. The epicenter of the earthquake was just 70 miles from Concepcion, Chile’s second-largest city. In Santiago, the capital, telephone and power outages made it difficult to determine the extent of the damage.

There has been an overwhelming amount of large magnitude earthquakes this year especially in the Caribbean and Latin America. The most damaging of course was the earthquake in Haiti in January that killed over 200,000 people.

You can read more about today’s earthquake in Chile by following the link to the washington post below.

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Story Update: BBC news has reported at least 64 and counting. People from Santiago have been e-mailing and tweeting BBC with updates check the story out here http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8540309.stm