Annette Messager Project Number Two

The headline of the article is "Chile earthquake kills 122 and triggers tsunami".
It is an article from "The Times".

The article was written the 27th February of 2010 by Robin Henry.

The article concentrates on the night of 26 to 27 February of 2010, where at 3:34am, local time, struck the most powerful chilean earthquate since 50 years with a magnitude of 8.8 in the Richter's scale shook the capital Santiago during one minute and half. The strongest of this region, with a magnitude of 9.5, had killed 1655 people and made 2 million of homeless. In this coastal country, located in a very active seismic zone because it is positioned at the junction of two tectonic plates, earthquates are relatively common. This earthquake and its three aftershocks of 6.9, 6.2 and 5.6, have currently killed 122 people and destroyed property, power and telephone lines. But this jolt can cause a tsunami (like Haïti), that why 53 countries are on tsunami alert including some Europan and the trial balance may well get worse...

To my mind, seismic measurements as construction of many buildings to resist earthquake have considerably reduced the number of death, especially since the population was sleeping under their houses. Indeed the trial balance human was devided by 14 compared to the earthquake of 1960, so there has been some progresse even if the balance is not zero.