Terremoto

It was through Guadalope that I first learned of the earthquake in Chile. She texted my cell phone early on Saturday morning knowing that Nick was in Chile,¨I don´t want to alarm you, but there was an earthquake in Chile. Check it out.¨

The next few hours were filled with online new papers, latest reports, maps and e-mails. I quickly researched where exactly Nick was in Chile, where exactly the epicenter of the earthquake was… where exactly the most damage was. I then wrote many e-mails detailing all these facts that were meant to clam worried family and friends (and myself) that both Nick and I had come through the earthquake unscathed.

Nick, of course, felt the earthquake quite strongly and was only about 400km south of the epicenter in Pucón (about the same distance as Santiago is from the epicenter to the north). I was in Salta, Argentina and though very, very far away felt a 5.somthing aftershock.

We are very lucky to be unaffected by the earthquake as it left much devastation in it´s path.