At least 450 killed in big Peru quake

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/16/07 | Jeanneth Valdivieso - ap

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Residents and rescue workers try to use the public payphones in Pisco some 245 km (150 miles) south of Lima August 16, 2007. Peruvians pulled hundreds of dead from the rubble of homes and churches on Thursday, piling some of them on street corners after a huge earthquake ravaged the country's central coast. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo (PERU)

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An image of Jesus is seen among the remains of a house following a deadly earthquake that hit the area late Wednesday, in the town of Pisco, 240 km. ( 150 miles ) south of Lima, Thursday Aug. 16, 2007. The death toll rose to 450 on Thursday in the magnitude-8 earthquake that devastated cities of adobe and brick in Peru's southern desert. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

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An aerial view of Senor de Luren church in Ica, 265 kms ( 164 miles ) southeast of Lima, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007 with part of its roof and its main tower collapsed, after an earthquake hit the area Wednesday, killing 17 people who were attending mass. The death toll in the magnitude-8 earthquake that struck Peru's southern desert has risen to 450 with about 1,500 injured, a senior U.N. official said Thursday, citing figures from Peru's National Disaster Management Authority. (AP Photo/Luis Choy/El Comercio)

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Cracks are seen along the Pan-American Highway after an earthquake in Chincha, 200 km (125 miles) south of Lima, August 16, 2007. Peruvians pulled hundreds of dead from the rubble of homes and churches on Thursday, piling some of them on street corners after a huge earthquake ravaged the country's central coast. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo (PERU)

[gleeaikin]

Those road cracks remind me of the highway damage after the big Anchorage EQ a few decades ago.

[lormand]

My next door neighbor is hiking the “Classic” trail to Machu Pichu this week. He told his wife that they didn’t feel anything there, and are safe where they are currently. I think he has to connect back via Lima on his way back though.

[LdSentinal]

:-(

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Hope they have a good stay and safe trip, quakes are funny sometimes where they are felt or propagated too, not sure of the exact distant form the epicenter but Machu Picchu is built into a pretty solid chunk of mountains..

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I had a chance to visit Anchorage some years back and went a park where land had given way and swallowed up houses, they had the roads in good order but looking at some of the pics downtown and surrounding Anchorage was a mess, it was no easy fete.. That was a 9+, there was a 9.5 or so in Chile in 1960.. talk about an E ticket ride.

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Many people said they had seen “lights in the sky,” a phenomenon authorities attributed to short circuits at electrical plants where the quake damaged cables and other equipment.

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or maybe it’s the piezoelectric effect.. two large sections of earth’s rocky crust rubbed and pounded together under immense pressure,, add some quartz in..

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Electricity lines that fell in Lima after an earthquake. Officials battled Thursday to help victims of a huge quake which rocked Peru's southern tourist coast killing some 500, injuring hundreds more, and leaving many feared trapped in the rubble.(AFP/Eitan Abramovich)

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Peruvians pulled hundreds of dead from the rubble of homes and churches on Thursday and bodies piled up on street corners after a huge earthquake ravaged the country's central coast. (Graphic/Reuters)

[lormand]

I think they are about 500-700 miles from the epicenter.

All this quake activity makes me nervous. I'm going to visit my bro in Santa Rosa next week. They are very close to the San Andreas Fault line.

This Cajun boy is used to Hurricanes, which gives you time to duck. Quakes aren't as courteous.

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I’ll take both of them over a tornado anyday.. We live within reach of good sized faults here, San Andreas, Hayward and Calaveras..

[lormand]

I live in the same County (Williamson, Texas) as is Jarell Texas which was hit by a F5 in 97'.

There were only slabs of concrete left after that one.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Hurricane Dean is a stalkin’

Earthquakes are a rockin’

Volcanoes are a poppin’

Vick is a coppin

Padilla ain’t gonna be walkin’

and it be all Bush’s fault

Cause al Gore is a talkin’

[NormsRevenge]

It wipes em clean , 200+mph winds can do that.

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You nailed that one. ;-) Thanks!

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WOW...I’m so sorry for the people of Peru

[Bean Counter]

This says a lot about construction in Peru. If this had been in China, the death toll would have been 450,000...