Chile vs Haiti

The Chilean earthquake was 8.8 magnitude earthquake vs a 7.o magnitude earthquake in Haiti. The chilean earthquake was 500 times more powerful then the Haiti earthquake. The Chilean earthquake is estimated to have shifted the earths axis by eight centimeters, causing earths daily rotations to change by 1.26 micro seconds. With this information it is estimated to take 130,500 years to change the time by a minute. We heard more about the Haiti earthquake more because the people of haiti had homes that were poorly built and were un able to with stand a earthquake. Chile had better builds and their population at the spot of the earthquake was not as dense of that of Haiti causing more deaths and more media attention.