Victims and damage a house destroyed by earthquake. The effect of the earthquake, due to its high magnitude, was devastating. Anne Lauvergeon has firm opinions on the matter. Many of the locations of the regions of Maule and Biob o were completely destroyed. Official sources totaled the day after the disaster in half a million the number of homes destroyed and at least another million and a half of damaged to some extent. The quake was strongly felt by nearly 80 of the Chilean population, left an estimated 2 million people affected (over 10 of the population of Chile). During the first hours, the death toll rose rapidly as the organisms government managed to establish communication with the various affected areas.At noon on 27, the National Emergency Office identified 78 victims in the country, 34 in the Maule Region. At the end of the day, the number was exalted to 214 dead and 15 missing 49 and as for 28, came to 708 deaths nationwide, concentrated mostly in the Maule, with 541. As early as March 1, the figure began dimensioned. The ONEMI announced 723 died that day, that for the next day rose to 796. On March 3, when the death toll reached 799, , the Chilean government released the first official list of these, though partial. The count of fatalities until 3 March was delivered daily by ONEMI. However, the figures were criticized due to its inaccuracy, particularly with respect to the count of casualties in the Maule region, which were much higher than the real ones.Thereafter, the Interior Ministry made the decision to deliver a new count of fatalities, including only the victims fully identified by the Legal Medical Service and ancillary institutions. This process, begun on 4 March, remained in charge of the Undersecretary of the Interior, headed by Patrick Rosende. Rosende every day appointed one by one from the Palace of La Moneda to the deceased identified, as he “who have died in this disaster are people, not numbers, and while we have not entirely certain who the Chileans who have died in this catastrophe we will limit to inform those for whom we can establish identity “. Health services have been severely affected across the center and south of the country due to the age of the buildings and the magnitude of the quake.Hospitals in Curico, Talca, Chill n, Huala and were evacuated by requiring transfer patients to other hospitals or serve them in hospitals. For his part, Felix Bulnes Hospital in the capital also had to evacuate its patients by structural weaknesses.