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Katie Orlinsky

Visual Storyteller & Contributing Photographer
    
El Terremoto
Location: North America
Nationality: American
Biography: Katie Orlinsky’s photography tells stories about the everyday lives of people in extreme situations, capturing the intimate moments of daily life behind larger global issues. For the past six years a large portion of her work has focused on... MORE
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El Terremoto
Copyright Katie Orlinsky 2024
Updated Dec 2014
Location Chile
Topics Earthquake, Environment, Latin America, Natural Disaster, Photojournalism

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit Chile at 3:34 a.m. on February 27 2010. Only a little over a month after the earthquake in Haiti, the disaster in Chile did not receive the international attention warranted for one of the strongest earthquakes in recorded history. The destruction in Chile was unparalleled, wiping entire coastal towns off the map and leaving an estimated 2 million homeless. Mass hysteria spread in affected cities, and for the first time since the dictatorship of Pinochet the Chilean military was ordered into the streets to institute a curfew.

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