On air: Revisiting Haiti and Chile.

Haiti’s earthquake on January 12th lasted 35 seconds and resulted in around 200,000 deaths.

The Haitian government and international agencies estimate that Haiti will need $11.5bn (£7.55bn) to rebuild after the devastating earthquake.  

Chile’s seismic tremor on February 27th, was 500 times stronger, measuring 8.8 in magnitude, compared with Haiti’s 7.0.

Yet the number of casualties lay in the hundreds. There was far less physical damage to structures and phone lines in Santiago began operating again within hours.

On air: Is looting ever acceptable?

Since we talked about the Chile earthquake last night, how to control looting has moved to the top of the agenda.

On air: Chile earthquake

An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the richter scale shook Chile in the in the early morning hours of February 27.

Strong aftershocks, some up to 6 points on the Richter scale, continued day and night and into Sunday.

Islands and countries across the Pacific were put on tsunami alert. Although this has now be lifted.