Since the big quake things have been a lot calmer. We are down to just a few small quakes a day.

There has been no success in finding the bodies of the missing. One item of interest: Although they haven't found any of the tsunami missing they did find 2 bodies floating in the fjord. They say they had nothing to do with the quake or tsunami. Hmmm

Some of the tsunami waves reached as far as 500 meters inland.

These photos show some of the huge landslides that occured at the time of the earthquake. They were in part responsible for the tsunami.

Earthquake and tsunami Puerto Aysen

Saturday April 21, 2:00 pm local time we suffered our largest earthquake ever. It registered over 6.2 on the Ricter scale and produced some damage in town, large landslides, a 6 to 15 meter tsunami, and at least 10 deaths.

Rhonda and I are fine as are most of the folks we know. We have power restored but our water is still not potabale.

Everything points to the cause being volcanic as eyewitnesses say they saw large rocks shoot out of the water along with smoke and steam. We also smelled a lot of sulphur after.

I'll try to keep you posted as I can.

Earthquakes

In the last 7 years we have had no tremblors, earthquakes, shaking, nothing. Then, without warning, we began to experience small to moderate earthquakes. Lots of them. In the last month they say we have expierienced over 2000! Most are real small and some have caused some damage.

Now they are saying the cause is due to a new volcano trying to emerge near our town. (possibly some 15 miles away) The depth (epocenter) of the quakes is steadily decreasing and is now about 2 miles deep.

Needless to say everyone is quite concerned and some people are now sending their children to live in Coyhaique some 40 miles away. I'll try to keep you posted and we solicit your prayers for our protection and wisdom as we face this new challenge.

In Puerto Cisnes 80 people attended the closing service!

In January we received a team of young people from the central part of Chile. They came down for several weeks to minister to the churches and towns in Patagonia.

The team consisted of 7 of us in all. We travelled quite a bit in the region visiting a number if towns. 7 people with luggage in a car built for 5 at most was kind of challenging!