Sebastian Pinera, Chile’s president, announced yesterday, he “will create 60 thousand additional jobs to cope with the phase of reconstruction after the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country.”

A new earthquake measuring six degrees on the Richter scale took place this morning in the Bio-Bio region, when the country was recovering from a blackout that caused panic in population.

Seismological Service of the University of Chile, reported that “a total of 50 quakes happened in central and southern Chile since last Thursday, 44 of them with its epicenter near the coastal town of Pichilemu, about 180 miles southwest of Santiago.”

The solidarity show ‘Argentina hugs Chile’ began at 4 pm on Figueroa Alcorta y La Pampa, in front of 50 thousand people. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

A new major earthquake (7.2 º on the Richter scale) occurred in Chile minutes before of presidential change.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who leaves the government with an unprecedented positive image of 84%, left his office at the palace La Moneda with the roar of hundreds of people who waited near the government house.

Chilean President-elect Sebastian Pinera, a representative of an alliance of right-wing parties, has just taken command in a ceremony full of austerity because of the enormous tragedy that has beset the neighboring country. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

The Palace Guard pays their last respects to Michelle Bachelet, about a hundred people were waiting to say goodbye.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet’s popularity was unharmed from the effects of the earthquake that struck on 27 February the central-south regions of the country.

Researchers at Ohio University say that during the massive magnitude-8.8 earthquake that struck Chile on Feb. 27th, cities and islands in South America physically shifted west.

A scientific study said the earthquake which struck Chile last month displaced more than ten feet west the whole city of Concepcion and altered the geographical location of other cities of that country and neighboring Argentina.

President Michelle Bachelet had criticized these people saying that such raids “have nothing to do with survival, but with people looking to profit through the pain of others. There’s neighbors angry that some were selling these goods.”

Chile’s population had a day of excitement and expectations with television networks broadcasting live the charity show “Chile helps Chile” which ended at midnight. The show far exceeded the 15 billion pesos that organizers were expecting and reached 30,212,775,555.

Official sources reported that “The telethon organized by the authorities of Bolivia to help the victims of the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti raised over a million dollars.”

This Friday, the Chilean government announced that “The number of deaths after the earthquake and tsunamis that hit central and southern Chile last weekend rose to 452″.

Roger Waters, Pink Floyd’s iconic bassist and vocalist, sent an extensive, emotional letter to Radio Futuro to express his support for the Chilean people after last Saturday’s earthquake.

Following the devastating 8.8 magnitude earthquake that left hundreds of dead and millions homeless, the Chilean government has just decreed yellow alert on Llaima and Villarrica volcanos.

Chilean tennis player Fernando González is making efforts to play against Spanish Rafael Nadal and Switzerland Roger Federer to raise funds in benefit of Chile earthquake victims.

The new tremor of 6.7 ° on the Richter scale occurred in the neighboring country just after 9 am. This was the second tremor of more than 6 degrees which occurred in less than an hour and the sixth day’s aftershok.

The story of the Desarmes family that after the earthquake in Haiti fled to Chile searching for peace, but ended up finding the same disaster.