PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The earthquake in Chile was far stronger than the one that struck Haiti last month – yet the death toll in this Caribbean nation is magnitudes higher.

The reasons are simple.

Chile is wealthier and infinitely better prepared, with strict building codes, robust emergency response and a long history of handling seismic catastrophes. No living Haitian had experienced a quake at home when the Jan. 12 disaster crumbled their poorly constructed buildings.

And Chile was relatively lucky this time.

Saturday’s quake was centered offshore an estimated 21 miles (34 kilometers) underground in a relatively unpopulated area while Haiti’s tectonic mayhem struck closer to the surface – about 8 miles (13 kilometers) – and right on the edge of Port-au-Prince, factors that increased its destructiveness.

“Earthquakes don’t kill – they don’t create damage – if there’s nothing to damage,” said Eric Calais, a Purdue University geophysicist studying the Haiti quake.

The U.S. Geological Survey says eight Haitian cities and towns – including this capital of 3 million – suffered “violent” to “extreme” shaking in last month’s 7-magnitude quake, which Haiti’s government estimates killed some 220,000 people. Chile’s death toll was in the hundreds.

By contrast, no Chilean urban area suffered more than “severe” shaking – the third most serious level – Saturday in its 8.8-magnitude disaster, by USGS measure. The quake was centered 200 miles (325 kms) away from Chile’s capital and largest city, Santiago.

In terms of energy released at the epicenter, the Chilean quake was 501 times stronger. But energy dissipates rather quickly as distances grow from epicenters – and the ground beneath Port-au-Prince is less stable by comparison and “shakes like jelly,” says University of Miami geologist Tim Dixon.

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WHERE WAS CHILE’S  DEATH TOLL..?

T.I. was born Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. on September 25, 1980, in Bankhead, Atlanta, Georgia. Raised by his grandparents, he began rapping at age seven. As a teenager, he was a drug dealer. He was at one time known as Rubber Band Man, a reference to the custom of wearing rubber bands around the wrist to denote wealth in terms of drugs or money. By age 14, he had been arrested several times.^[5] He was nicknamed “Tip” after his paternal great-grandfather.^[9] Kawan “KP” Prather, a record executive, discovered and signed T.I. when he was a teenager. Upon signing with Arista Records subsidiary LaFace Records in 2001, he shortened his name to T.I. out of respect for label mate Q-Tip. In 2009, T.I. appeared as himself on an episode of Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List. On the episode, he took the comedienne to Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles in LA and gave her a lesson on how to “swagger.

T.I. is the stage name of Atlanta, Georgia rapper Clifford Harris, whose fourth album, King, was the best-selling rap release of 2006. Harris, whose childhood nickname is Tip, released his first full album in 2001 (I’m Serious). T.I. then steadily built sales with his next releases, Trap Muzik (2003) and Urban Legend (2004). King launched him into the big time and earned a Grammy for best rap solo (“What You Know”). The self-proclaimed “King of Hip-Hop,” Harris sticks to traditional rap themes — illegal drugs, illicit guns and ill-treated women — and is known as a technically skilled lyricist. Over the years he’s worked with Destiny’s Child, Busta Rhymes, Eminem, Jaimie Foxx and Justin Timberlake (their single “My Love” won a Grammy). Like Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs, Harris has business interests beyond making hit records, including nightclubs, construction and a record label and media company, Grand Hustle. His success in 2006 included landing a role in a new Ridley Scott movie with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe (American Gangster) and teaming up with Chevrolet and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. for TV commercials. His hit songs include “What You Know,” “U Don’t Know Me” and “Big Things Poppin’” (that’s the polite title). He released his sixth album, T.I. vs T.I.P. in 2007, and in 2008 he was convicted on federal weapons charges and ordered to perform community service while awaiting sentencing. He was finally sentenced in March of 2009 to serve a year in jail (beginning 26 May), with a fine of $100,000.    IM IN LOVE WITH MY WIFE TERRENCIA LAMONDRIA JACKSON

• WHAT IS TI REAL NAME..()?
• WHAT HIS RAPPER NAME IN ATLANANTA?
• WHEN HIS BIRTHDAY?