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An 8.8­magnitude earthquake struck Chile on 27 Feb,2010.More than 300 people are reported     【小题1】    (kill) in Chile after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit the South American nation early Saturday，    【小题2】    (cause)considerable destruction as well，and creating tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean.
Rescuers worked frantically for hours to help survivors of the quake     【小题3】    centered 100 kilometers from the city of Concepcion but caused damage and deaths in several parts of Chile.
Homes，buildings and bridges collapsed or caught fire，cars     【小题4】    (overturn)，and the main international airport had to be shut down because of damage. One survivor said it was terrible. She said she thought she was not     【小题5】    (scare)of earthquakes but then，she says，it looked as if everything was going to collapse. There were at least eight aftershocks and tidal waves of up     【小题6】     two meters that hit Chile’s coast. Residents in lowlying areas and living on islands off the mainland tried to flee     【小题7】    higher ground. Chile experiences many earthquakes but the early Saturday natural disaster was     【小题8】    of its most severe (剧烈的). Thorne Lay，a geophysicist at the University of California，Santa Cruz，said it was much stronger than     【小题9】    one that caused devastation(废墟)in Haiti last month，but probably less     【小题10】    (destroy)，because of where it was centered.killed