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    Chile Earthquake

    Sat, 02/27/2010 - 10:10 EDT - Mathew Yglesias
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    • uncat

    Earthquake hits Chile. This one is much more powerful than the Haitian earthquake—1000 times more powerful, I’m hearing—but fortunately looks like it will be much less devastating thanks to Chile’s vastly superior infrastructure, government capacity, and general level of wealth.


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