RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service

Situation Update No. 1

Posted:2010-02-28, 11:44:55 [UTC]

Ref.no.: AC-20100228-25152-CHL

Situation Update No. 1
On 2010-02-28 at 13:45:09 [UTC]

Event: Technological Disaster
Location: Chile Departmento de Bio-Bio Concepción

Number of Injured: 100 person(s)

Some 100 people were trapped in a collapsed building in the second largest Chilean city of Consepcion on Sunday following the 8.8-magnitude earthquake on Saturday, local media quoted the city mayor as saying. Jacqueline van Rysselberghe said they are running against time to save people inside the building, local TV reported. More than 300 people have been killed in Chile after the megaquake hit the country on Saturday, the national emergency office said.