Mar 2, 2010
An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale, even stronger than the recent one in Haiti, hit central Chile early on Saturday morning. The death toll is already reported to be over 700, with many people still trapped inside collapsed buildings.
Our disaster management team in South America is working hard to find out as much as we can about the situation in Chile, so we can plan what to do for the animals there.
This is not the first natural disaster to strike Chile. In 1960 the country suffered the world’s strongest recorded earthquake. But animals are not included in the government’s disaster response plans, and therefore it may be a while before we can put together an assessment of the impact on the animal population.
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