Mood:
blueTopic: Chile
WOW!
That was quite a string of aftershocks! All of them very nearby. We
went to the window to see the window washers across the street lowering themselves. 
A moment late we were running down the stairs under evacuation warning. I was last out, as usual, just after an announcement that an inspection had declared the building sound. There were some local power outages; cell phone service was lost or overloaded. The new President was sworn in.
Every building had a crowd of people outside. Although loudspeakers
announced our building to be safe we decided to be safer and went to
Subway for lunch. As it was early, there was no line. We got back to
the building at about 1:30; one elevator was thankfully restored. There
was a long line at Subway.
The string continued, on the coast west of Rancagua, with a total of twelve in the next six hours or so, all of them all nearby and fairly strong, none of them leaving any doubt in anyone's mind that pachamama wasn't serious. I left the building after the tenth and came to my apartment as it is easier to go down 4 flights than 19! I knew commissioning ALMA would be exciting (several multiline images now) but I had not included this dimension of excitement.
