Lauren: Onemi meeting video.

Below is the viral internet video of the Onemi meeting (think FEMA, but in Chile) immediately after the 8.8 earthquake on Feb. 27.

This video captures the breakdown in communication between the Navy, Shoa, Onemi, and the former-President Michelle Bachelet, who is shown saying she received intel from the Navy that there was no threat of a tsunami in Constitucion. Carmen Fernandez, the former head of Onemi who left the position days later, is shown saying that scientifically there was no threat of tsunami. Clearly, someone was misinformed.

There were about 350 deaths in Constitucion as a result of Feb. 27 earthquake and following tsunamis and flooding of the Maule river in Constitucion, and when I left there were still about 90 "disappearances," people whose bodies hadn't been found but were still missing. This was over a month after the earthquake. The waves of the tsunami were said to be about 10-11 meters tall.

The video is a pretty clear illustration of the chaos and breakdown in communication after the earthquake.

-- Lauren