(지진) 칠레 진앙지 방문
칠레 진앙지 방문
The epicenter. Our NBC News crews finally arrived to see the worst of Chile’s earthquake. Tonight, we’ll show you what they’ve found. We turn to South America now. The latest from Chile where another powerful quake struck just today hundreds of miles north of Santiago. This one measured 6.3. The US geological survey tells us this is not considered an aftershock to Saturday’s quake. But another earthquake all its own. The first one this weekend left such devastation that it’s only now that our NBC News crew has been able to make it to the area closest to the epicenter itself and tonight Mark Potter has our report.
The village of Curanipe was at the very heart of the Chilean earthquake.Because it was so dangerously close, most of it has gone now. Aisles Martinas and her husband lost all their business. Thank god. We are alive here. You can’t imagine what happened, she says. The downtown area was ripped apart, first by the earthquake, then by the tsunami with three giant waves. We heard behind us all the trees falling and a lot of screams. People screaming that they needed help, said Marco Modell who ran as fast as he could to escape the rising water.
Today, rescue workers search for the bodies of 40 campers who were unable to escape the tsunami. More than two dozen bodies have already found around town. Economically Curanipe has been devastated. The entire fishing industry here was wiped out. Boats tossed ashore. Processing plants and restaurants destroyed. Fisherman Huila Vera and his wife Maria have nothing left to work with. I lost all my equipment, my boat, my motor, my nets, everything, he says.
An irony that many people here are talking about is that this is a town that depends and thrives on what it gets from the sea, but now that the sea has taken so much back. Many people here for the first time are afraid of it. At the inland to Curanipe are monuments blessing the fishermen
and just beyond them is a town where all those fishermen and everyone else are reeling비틀거리는 from the disaster. Mark Potter, NBC News, Curanipe, Chile.