Chile Earthquake (2010)

Like many "American Idol" loyalists (and social networking junkies), we were tuned into Twitter during the early morning hours of February 27 when we learned that Season 5's Elliott Yamin had experienced the Chilean earthquake firsthand. Yamin was...

This week, in a post about the 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile over the weekend, GalleyCat quoted the late Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño on the unbearable lightness of seismicity. "Sometimes," Bolaño observed, "the earth shakes. ... The epicenter...

Chile's government can pay for the emergency relief effort related to Saturday's earthquake without taking extra budget measures or seeking congressional approval, Finance Minister Andres Velasco said Sunday. “In this tragedy, this government's response...

At OK Donuts in Pico Rivera, Leang Muy and his sister Lisa Parng were cleaning the kitchen when they suddenly felt the ground shake. "I stood still," said Muy, 27. "I heard my sister say, 'Earthquake!' and she too didn't......

The death toll nearly doubles as rescuers reach isolated and devastated towns. About 2 million people are hurt or without their homes in the aftermath of the 8.8 quake....

Along Jasmin Street in this capital's middle-class Villa Olimpica neighborhood, residents were packing up their belongings in trucks Sunday, hauling out furniture, clothing and keepsakes from damaged and unlivable apartments. Deep cracks and crooked...

Google's Person Finder for the Chile Earthquake has now reached more than 39,000 records. The U.S. State Department sent out an e-mail with a link to the tool shortly after the quake hit. The same tool was used during the Haiti earthquake and has more...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday the United States is ready to work "in solidarity" with the leaders of Chile to provide disaster assistance to the earthquake-stricken country. Speaking to reporters while traveling in Montevideo,...

The United Nations says it will rush aid deliveries to Chile after the government asked for help in its recovery from this weekend's massive earthquake. U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs says Chile officially made its request Monday, two days...

Southern California's small but tightknit Chilean community scrambled Sunday to contact loved ones affected by the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck their homeland Saturday, and began organizing to help victims. "We have a lot of anguish," said Jorge...

Seismologists say one reason why the Puente Hills thrustfault is so dangerous is that it focuses shaking toward downtown Los Angeles, rather than away from it. The fault's shape and direction make it different from the one that triggered the......

The Chilean army, enforcing emergency decrees aimed at containing widespread looting, arrested scores of people Monday for violating an overnight curfew as the country reeled from the weekend's devastating earthquake. The death toll climbed to 711 as more...