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Hello classmates!

Today I’m going to talk about something that is very normal in Chile, earthquakes.

It’s been a lot of big earthquakes in our land, and it’s said that if you live here, you will feel, minimum two of them in your life.

Well, I felt one of those two, and it happened on February 27^th of 2010.

On that night I was in San Bernardo (South of Santiago), and I was on a car on Barros Arana Street. I was with my family in our way back home, after my mother’s birthday celebration.

The celebration took place at my aunt’s flat that is on the 10^th floor of the building. We got there early and chat and ate cake, but then it became so late and decided to go home.

When we were on the car, everything was ok, but suddenly I saw that all traffic lights and post were moving like if the ground was made of water. Then, my uncle that was driving, decided to stop on a side of the street and wait, but meanwhile he opened one car door, in case that it get locked (haha), well, obviously he made that, because he was so nervous.

When the earthquake was happen, well from the car, I saw a punk group getting scared and running in circles, a couple of houses going straight down to the street like it were made of sand and the sky changing of colours like on a thunderstorm.

Well, when it stopped, my uncle went to my home and leaves us there, but on the way to home; all the streets were full of stones and rubble, so for him it were complicated to drive. After that, we stayed home and my uncle went to see my aunt that stayed on her flat on the 10^th floor.

This earthquake, fortunately, doesn’t take problems with family houses, but it took psychological problems like scare to another quake, like all post shock events.