article_snippet.sent: Emergency officials were taken by surprise and had only a few minutes to issue an alert.
article_snippet.sent: Miguel Diaz who lives in Puerto Montt 14 miles away added: 'I heard a loud noise as if somebody had detonated an atomic bomb.'
article_snippet.sent: And supermarkets closed supermarkets doors to avoid being looted.
article_snippet.sent: He said: 'It sounded like a big tractor trailer passing by the road, rattling and shaking, guttural rumbling ...
article_snippet.sent: we left everything there, grabbed my kid, my dog, got in the car with my wife.
article_snippet.sent: he added: 'All the neighbors were outside, a lot of young people crying.
article_snippet.sent: A friend told me to fill everything we have with water.'