My thoughts are with the people there who have lost loved ones and are struggling with the whole thing.

I read in several places that it was 500 times stronger than the quake in Haiti. But Chile is a developed country and builds with quakes in mind, thus the difference in destruction.

I'm supposed to go to Chile next week for vacation--a bike tour in the worst-hit area south of Santiago. Don't know yet if it will be on, or if it is, if it will be a relaxing vacation or stressful.