RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service

Situation Update No. 34

Posted:2010-02-27, 06:34:05 [UTC]

Ref.no.: EQ-20100227-25098-CHL

Situation Update No. 34
On 2010-03-04 at 04:32:28 [UTC]

Event: Earthquake
Location: Chile Región del Maule 42 km W Cauquenes

Number of Deads: 802 person(s)
Number of Injured: ? person(s)
Number of Missing: 100 person(s)

THE official death toll from the 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile and the tsunami it unleashed has risen to 802, the country's national emergency office says. The majority of the new deaths recorded overnight were in the Maule region - where nearly 600 people were confirmed dead after Saturday's quake. Earlier, the office confirmed 92 deaths in Bio Bio, 48 in O'Higgins, 38 in the capital's metropolitan area, 20 in Valparaiso and 14 in Araucania.