SU Students Safe After Chile Earthquake

Syracuse University Abroad reports that the twenty-one students studying in Chile during the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that hit this past weekend are safe.

There are nineteen undergraduate students and two graduate students from SU currently in Chile. Even though SU'S abroad program is based 200 miles from the earthquake in Santiago, Jon Booth, executive director of SU Abroad said, "some of the students do not have electricity or Internet access. But all of the students currently have access to water and, within the next 24 to 48 hours, all are expected to have electricity and the Internet again."


"During the 2007-8 academic year, Chile was the 19th most popular destination for study abroad, attracting 2,739 students from colleges in the United States", according to the Institute of International Education.


Two days after the earthquake hit the death toll reached more than 700 people in Chile.

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