THE DISASTER THAT SHOOK THE WHOLE COUNTRY....

The 1960 Valdivia earthquake or Great Chilean Earthquake of Sunday, 22 May 1960 is to date the most powerful earthquake ever recorded, rating 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale. It occurred in the afternoon and its resulting tsunami affected southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, eastern New Zealand, southeast Australia, and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.Approximately 1,655 killed, 3,000 injured, 2,000,000 homeless, and $550 million damage in this earthquake....

It was truly very disasterous... Cant even imagine how much the people would have gone through.