Chile's quick response to quake kept death toll down

Speedy, orderly evacuation of more than one million people after Wednesday's 8.3-magnitude earthquake shows how effective early warning systems and disaster-preparedness plans can be.

Concepts of Thinking: Patterns and Trends, Interrelationships, Spatial Significance

A man sits by fishing boats that were run aground by the sea while berthed in the port of Coquimbo, about 445 kilometres north of Santiago, Chile, during the earthquake Wednesday night.

By: Marina Jimenez Toronto Star, Published on Thu Sep 17 2015