Chile Earthquake 5 - WRAP Aftermath of 7.7-magnitude quake leaves 15,000 ple homeless
NAME: CHI QUAKE 5 20071115I
TAPE: EF07/1378
IN_TIME: 10:24:29:02
DURATION: 00:02:05:06
SOURCES: CHANNEL 13
DATELINE: Various, 15 Nov 2007
RESTRICTIONS: No Access Chile
SHOTLIST
AP TELEVISION
Tocopilla, 15 November 2007
1. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet greeting residents outside hospital
2. Cutaway of onlookers outside hospital
3. Close of Bachelet walking with hospital administrator
4. Wide of Bachelet walking into hospital
5. Close of sign reading: "Hospital Marcos Macuada"
6. Bachelet walking into a house with her aides
7. Soldiers carrying large pieces of debris out of house
++QUALITY AS INCOMING++
Channel 13 Amateur Video - No Access Chile
Atofagasta, 14 November 2007
8. Various tracking shots taken inside house during earthquake
Channel 13 - No Access Chile
Maria Elena, 15 November 2007
9. Tracking shot of destroyed building
10. Wide shot of tents pitched near destroyed buildings
11. Various shots of destroyed houses
Channel 13 - No Access Chile
Tocopilla, 15 November 2007
++NIGHT SHOTS++
12. Tracking shot through tents, people sitting around tables among the tents
13. Wide shot of girl sleeping in car
14. Close-up of girl sleeping in car
15. Pan of tents, people sitting around a fire
STORYLINE
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet on Thursday toured the north of the country, a day after a powerful earthquake in the region left 15,000 people homeless.
Bachelet met with residents in the city of Tocopilla, where the strongest aftershock was felt.
The president's visit came as the Chilean government announced it was sending tons of food, water and medicine to the country's quake-stricken north.
The earthquake destroyed or damaged more than four thousand houses, killed two people and injured more than 150, the government reported.
Tocopilla and the nearby mining town of Maria Elena were hit the hardest - causing officials to declare them disaster areas to expedite aid delivery.
About 500 emergency housing units have been sent to Tocopilla.
A portable military hospital was also sent to the port city and already operating on Thursday morning, after the local hospital was severely damaged.
The quake, centered in Chile's Atacama desert near the village of Quillagua, was so strong it was felt on the other side of the continent in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The quake struck around midday on Wednesday 1,260 kilometres (780 miles) north of the capital Santiago and was followed by several aftershocks, according to the US Geological Survey.
The quake occurred in one of the most seismically active regions in the world, where the Nazca tectonic plate is shoving itself beneath the South American plate.
A 1939 quake in Chile killed 28-thousand people and in 1960, a magnitude-9.5 quake, the strongest recorded in the 20th century, killed 5,700 people.
On June 13, 2005, a magnitude 7.8 quake near Tarapaca in northern Chile killed 11 people and left thousands homeless.