Tourists are seen outside of a destroyed hotel in Vina del Mar after a huge 8.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Chile.Smoke from a burning building fills the sky in the outskirts of Santiago after the devastating quake.Cars are seen flipped over after a bridge collapsed in Santiago due to the earthquake in Chile.
Powerful aftershocks rattled Chile's coast - 41 of them magnitude 5 or greater - in the 10 hours after the quake. Six were sizable quakes in their own right, magnitude 6 or greater.
This image obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows a model of the preliminary forecast of the tsunami triggered by the 8.8 eartquake in Chile. The model shows waves of up to one meter travelling across the Pacific Ocean.
Shoppers line up in front of a grocery store as they wait for it to open in Honolulu, Hawaii. Residents are stocking up on food and emergency supplies in preparation for a potentially damaging tsunami, after a massive earthquake hit Chile.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet declared a "state of catastrophe" in central Chile but said the government has not asked for assistance from other countries.A car is pictured next to rubble in Curico, 250 km south of Santiago.
Collapsed roads and bridges complicated north-south travel in the narrow Andean nation.Electricity, water and phone lines were cut to many areas - meaning there was no word of death or damage from many outlying areas.
A general view of the Museum of Fine Arts in downtown Santiago shows the damaged caused by the huge 8.8-magnitude earthquake.A tsunami caused by the by the magnitude 8.8 quake threatened every nation around the Pacific Ocean - roughly a quarter of the globe.
Seen here, a man cleaning the rubble in a street of Santiago following the catastrophic quake.One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Chile on Saturday, toppling homes, collapsing bridges and plunging trucks into the fractured earth.
300 people have lost their lives and the numbers are rising.In this pic, a man looks through the rubble of a destroyed car dealership in Santiago after the devastating quake.
Powerful aftershocks rattled Chile's coast - 41 of them magnitude 5 or greater - in the 10 hours after the quake. Six were sizable quakes in their own right, magnitude 6 or greater.
This image obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows a model of the preliminary forecast of the tsunami triggered by the 8.8 eartquake in Chile. The model shows waves of up to one meter travelling across the Pacific Ocean.
Shoppers line up in front of a grocery store as they wait for it to open in Honolulu, Hawaii. Residents are stocking up on food and emergency supplies in preparation for a potentially damaging tsunami, after a massive earthquake hit Chile.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet declared a "state of catastrophe" in central Chile but said the government has not asked for assistance from other countries.A car is pictured next to rubble in Curico, 250 km south of Santiago.
Collapsed roads and bridges complicated north-south travel in the narrow Andean nation.Electricity, water and phone lines were cut to many areas - meaning there was no word of death or damage from many outlying areas.
A general view of the Museum of Fine Arts in downtown Santiago shows the damaged caused by the huge 8.8-magnitude earthquake.A tsunami caused by the by the magnitude 8.8 quake threatened every nation around the Pacific Ocean - roughly a quarter of the globe.
Seen here, a man cleaning the rubble in a street of Santiago following the catastrophic quake.One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Chile on Saturday, toppling homes, collapsing bridges and plunging trucks into the fractured earth.
300 people have lost their lives and the numbers are rising.In this pic, a man looks through the rubble of a destroyed car dealership in Santiago after the devastating quake.
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