Thunderbird students caught in Chile quake
Written on March 4, 2010
Forty-two students from the Thunderbird School of Global Management were in Chile Saturday during the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked the South American country.
The Glendale graduate business school said the students as well as a professor and staff member survived the quake without injury.
The students, in the capital city of Santiago for a one-week class, were scheduled to leave Monday. The hotel they were staying at suffered power outages, but was operating on a backup generator.
"Everyone is in good spirits and doing very well,” said Roy Nelson, the Thunderbird professor in Chile with the students.
The quake has killed some 147 people and triggered tsunami warnings in Hawaii and other Pacific Ocean locations quick cash.
“This morning was a very scary one indeed. The shaking was incredible, woke me very hard out of a deep sleep around 3:34 a.m.,” said Ray Flores, assistant director of global recruitment at Thunderbird in an account provided by the business school. “It lasted for a few minutes, with smaller aftershocks. I was the last one out of our group. We had a heavy after shock around 7 a.m. with smaller ones throughout the day.” Flores and Nelson said the students should be back in the U.S. Monday or early next week.
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