Peru's capital highly vulnerable to major quake
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LIMA, Peru – The earthquake all but flattened colonial Lima, the shaking so violent that people tossed to the ground couldn't get back up. Minutes later, a 50-foot (15-meter) wall of Pacific Ocean crashed into the adjacent port of Callao, killing all but 200 of its 5,000 inhabitants. Bodies washed ashore for weeks. Plenty of earthquakes have shaken Peru's capital in the 266 years since that fateful night of Oct. 28, 1746, though none with anything near the violence. The relatively long "seismic silence" means that Lima, set astride one of the most volatile ruptures in the Earth's crust, is increasingly at risk of being hammered by a one-two, quake-tsunami punch as calamitous as what devastated Japan last year and traumatized Santiago, Chile, and its nearby coast a year earlier, seismologists say. Yet this city of 9 million people is sorely unprepared.
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Lima
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Agustin Gonzalez
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Gabriel Prado
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| -0.230932 | "A quake similar to what happened in Santiago would break the country economically," said Gabriel Prado, ... |
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Jose Sato
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Hernando Tavera
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Carlos Zavala
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