Chile: 8.8 earthquake and aftershocks

Update: Millions affected as toll rises to 300 and ‘State of Catastrophe’...the city shook for about 90 seconds.

- I was in the Bay Area Morgan Hill earthquake in April 1984 and it was "just"a 6.2 that lasted about 20 to 30 seconds and as it built you went from the sense that a truck was passing nearby to fear or the building ripping apart.
An earthquake 100 times stronger and three to our times longer must be terrifying.

Update: Huge earthquake batters Chile, 78 dead

Local reports of the 8.8 eartquake
and the USGS reports at least two large aftershocks:

1 hour ago 5.4 Offshore Maule, Chile
2 hours ago 6.2 Offshore Maule, Chile
2 hours ago 8.8 Offshore Maule, Chile

I have been in many smaller quakes and one about 6.2 and would not like to know at all what an 8.8 would feel like.

The greatest recorded quake, 9.5 was in Chile in 1960.