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Originally posted by Chrono
yeah, im alive 
i was checking out the shoutbox when it started. It started slowly and, as i said, i didnt bother about it as we get a lot of tremors in Chile (because we're "in between" the Nazca and South American tectonic plates, so we're all used to them ). So i even took the time to make the "woah" shout i was about to post that it was tremoring when things got worse, though.
Suddenly it got really hard, so i quickly went and stood under the door frame, which is the safest place during a tremor/earthquake in case you didn't know . Then things started to fall at home, it was REALLY noisy, so noisy that i had to yell at my father (who'd just woke up) that i was ok, even though this is a small appartment. i saw how there was a crack appearing at the wall right next to me ;o. Then there was a powerdown, no more lights to see any of the action 
. Then it slowly stopped .
i must admit tht i like tremors, i even enjoy them, but this was way too much, it was really scary ;o. The strongest part of the earthquake lasted for about 15/20 seconds .
So that's it, we got a lot of aftershocks, but nothing really important We cleaned up a bit before going to bed after an hour or so 
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Btw, the earthquake was 8.8 (Mercalli) in the epicentre and about 8 here in Santiago.
I find it a little disturbing that you were able to use the '
' emoticon so many times while talking about an earthquake ~700 times stronger than Haiti's one
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