In Concepcion, a city about 115 kilometers southwest from the epicenter, at least 100 people ARE feared trapped in a building. Rescuer workers are combing through the rubble for survivors.

 

Rescue workers in Concepcion have been battling to reach anyone they can take out of harms way.

About 100 people are feared trapped in this collapsed apartment block.

The heavily damaged building fell apart as residents were trying to escape.

Survivor, said, "We were going up to get out and we saw a shaft of light and we thought it was a window." "We thought we would die. I heard my friends screams and I opened a door and the building just dissolved around us and we fell."

Rescuers spent the whole night working, but some people say not enough is being done.

Local Reisident, said, "My wife is on the fourteenth floor. I got out alone and they're not doing anything to help my wife." "My wife is with my son, my son. I am going to rescue them now."

670,000 Concepcion residents are affected by the quake. Thousands of them spent the night in tents or makeshift shelters made from bed-sheets and cardboard boxes.

The government faces the task of helping rebuild an estimated half a million homes that were severely damaged as well as hundreds of buckled roads and collapsed bridges.

Waves generated by the earthquake caused flooding in many towns along the Pacific coast. The epicenter of the quake is 325 kilometers south-west of the capital Santiago and struck at a depth of about 35 kilometers.