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One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded tore apart houses, bridges and highways in central Chile on Saturday and sent a tsunami racing halfway around the world. Chileans near the epicenter were tossed about as if shaken by a giant, and the head of the emergency agency said authorities believed at least 300 people were dead.

The magnitude-8.8 quake was felt as far away as Sao Paulo in Brazil – 1,800 miles to the east. The full extent of damage remained unclear as scores of aftershocks – one nearly as powerful as Haiti’s devastating Jan. 12 earthquake – shuddered across the disaster-prone Andean nation.

An 8.8 earthquake is more powerful than the largest nuclear bomb ever tested, officials told CBS News. Paul Caruso, of the U.S. Geological Survey, told CBS News correspondent Seth Doane that Chile’s quake was much bigger than the one that rocked Haiti last month — releasing 500 times more energy.

« If the epicenter was near a populated town, the town would be utterly destroyed, » said Caruso. « Fortunately in this case, the epicenter was off the coast. And the people of Chile have experience with earthquakes and they were well prepared for this one. »

President Michelle Bachelet declared a « state of catastrophe » in central Chile but said the government has not asked for assistance from other countries. If it does, President Obama said, the United States « will be there. » Around the world, leaders echoed his sentiment.

Mr. Obama said the U.S. is ready to assist Chile in rescue and recovery efforts. He said the U.S. has resources that are in position to deploy should the Chilean government ask for U.S. assistance.

In Chile, newly built apartment buildings slumped and fell. Flames devoured a prison. Millions of people fled into streets darkened by the failure of power lines. The collapse of bridges tossed and crushed cars and trucks, and complicated efforts to reach quake-damaged areas by road.

« It was absolutely frightening. Absolutely terrifying. I really thought it was the end of the world, » Cecilia Lagos told CBS News via Skype.

At least 214 people were killed and 15 were missing as of Saturday evening, Bachelet said in a national address on television. While that remained the official estimate, Carmen Fernandez, head of the National Emergency Agency, said later: « We think the real figure tops 300. And we believe this will continue to grow. »

Bachelet also said 1.5 million people had been affected by the quake, and officials in her administration said 500,000 homes were severely damaged.

In Talca, just 65 miles from the epicenter, people sleeping in bed suddenly felt like they were flying through major airplane turbulence as their belongings cascaded around them from the shuddering walls at 3:34 a.m. (1:34 a.m. EST, 0634 GMT).

A deafening roar rose from the convulsing earth as buildings groaned and clattered. The sound of screams was confused with the crash of plates and windows.

Then the earth stilled, silence returned and a smell of moist dust rose in the streets, where stunned survivors took refuge.

A journalist emerging into the darkened street scattered with downed power lines saw a man, some of his own bones apparently broken, weeping and caressing the hand of a woman who had died in the collapse of a cafe. Two other victims lay dead a few feet (meters) away.

Also near the epicenter was Concepcion, one of the country’s largest cities, where a 15-story building collapsed, leaving a few floors intact.

« I was on the 8th floor and all of a sudden I was down here, » said Fernando Abarzua, marveling that he escaped with no major injuries. He said a relative was still trapped in the rubble six hours after the quake, « but he keeps shouting, saying he’s OK. »

Chilean state television reported that 209 inmates escaped from prison in the city of Chillan, near the epicenter, after a fire broke out.

In the capital of Santiago, 200 miles northeast of the epicenter, a car dangled from a collapsed overpass, the national Fine Arts Museum was badly damaged and an apartment building’s two-story parking lot pancaked, smashing about 50 cars whose alarms rang incessantly.

While most modern buildings survived, a bell tower collapsed on the Nuestra Senora de la Providencia church and several hospitals were evacuated due to damage.

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Santiago’s airport was closed, with smashed windows, partially collapsed ceilings and destroyed pedestrian walkways in the passenger terminals. The capital’s subway was shut as well, and transportation was further limited because hundreds of buses were stuck behind a damaged bridge.

Chile’s main seaport, in Valparaiso about 75 miles from Santiago, was ordered closed while damage was assessed. The state-run Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, shut two of its mines, the newspaper La Tercera reported.

President-elect Sebastian Pinera angrily reported seeing some looting while flying over damaged areas. He vowed « to fight with maximum energy looting attempts that I saw with my own eyes. »

The jolt set off a tsunami that swamped San Juan Bautista village on Robinson Crusoe Island off Chile, killing at least five people and leaving 11 missing, said Guillermo de la Masa, head of the government emergency bureau for the Valparaiso region. He said the huge waves also damaged several government buildings on the island.

On the mainland, several huge waves inundated part of the major port city of Talcahuano, near the hard-hit city of Concepcion. A large boat was swept more than a block inland. Pinera flew over the area and said an unspecified number of people had died in Talacahuano.

Waves also flooded hundreds of houses in the town of Vichato, in the BioBio region.

The quake struck after concert-goers had left South America’s leading music festival in the coastal city of Vina del Mar, but it caught partiers leaving a disco.

It then raced across the Pacific, setting off alarm sirens in Hawaii, Polynesia and Tonga and prompting warnings across all 53 nations ringing the vast ocean.

Tsunami waves reached Hawaii, where experts said they could grow to 8 feet (2.5 meters). The U.S. Navy moved a half-dozen vessels out of Pearl Harbor as a precaution, according to Navy spokesman Lt. Myers Vasquez. Shore-side Hilo International Airport also was closed. In California, officials reported a 3-foot (1-meter) surge in Ventura Harbor 서울출장샵 pulled loose several navigational buoys.

About 13 million people live in the area where shaking was strong to severe, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. USGS geophysicist Robert Williams said the Chilean quake was hundreds of times more powerful than Haiti’s magnitude-7 quake, though it was deeper and cost far fewer lives.

More than 50 aftershocks topped magnitude 5, including one of magnitude 6.9.

The largest earthquake ever recorded struck the same area of Chile on May 22, 1960. The magnitude-9.5 quake killed 1,655 people and left 2 million homeless. It caused a tsunami that killed people in Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines and caused damage along the west coast of the United States.

Saturday’s quake matched a 1906 temblor off the Ecuadorean coast as the seventh-strongest ever recorded in the world.

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When a search for the name she gave turned up no records, the officers asked her again for the information, and she gave her correct name and date of birth, authorities said

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Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, was driving a sport utility vehicle on Wednesday when she was stopped for talking on a handheld cell phone and failing to stop at a stop sign, police told The Record of Bergen County.

<img src="http://image.baidu.com/search/http:%5C/%5C/cdn.duitang.com%5C/uploads%5C/item%5C/201510%5C/31%5C/20151031134333_graxw.thumb.700_0.jpeg" alt="4129140704 37437060 4970_73″ style= »max-width:400px;float:right;padding:10px 0px 10px 10px;border:0px; »>After a check showed the SUV’s registration had been suspended, the 27-year-old rapper gave officers a variation of her real name and a date of birth that was a year off, authorities said.

When a search for the name she gave turned up no records, the officers asked her again for the information, and she gave her correct name and date of birth, authorities said.

The officers then learned that Brown’s license was suspended, and she was taken to police headquarters, where she was issued seven traffic tickets and released on her own recognizance.

She was told to appear in municipal court Sept. 4 in Mahwah.

Brown’s lawyer, John L. Sampson, did not immediately respond to requests for comment by The Associated Press on Monday night.

The traffic stop came a day after Brown was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a neighbor in New York City’s Brooklyn borough.

Police said that the two women got into a fight over the rapper blasting her car stereo and 부산출장샵 that, when they passed each other on the street a few days later, Brown hurled her BlackBerry device at the woman, cutting her lip and knocking a tooth loose.

Brown is already on probation after pleading guilty to assault in a 2004 dispute over paying for a manicure.

The traffic stop came a day after Brown was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a neighbor in New York City’s Brooklyn borough

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Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, was driving a sport utility vehicle on Wednesday when she was stopped for talking on a handheld cell phone and failing to stop at a stop sign, police told The Record of Bergen County.

After a check showed the SUV’s registration had been suspended, the 27-year-old rapper gave officers a variation of her real name and a date of birth that was a year off, authorities said.

When a search for the name she gave turned up no records, 서울출장샵 the officers asked her again for the information, and she gave her correct name and date of birth, authorities said.

The officers then learned that Brown’s license was suspended, and she was taken to police headquarters, where she was issued seven traffic tickets and released on her own recognizance.

She was told to appear in municipal court Sept. 4 in Mahwah.

Brown’s lawyer, John L. Sampson, did not immediately respond to requests for comment by The Associated Press on Monday night.

The traffic stop came a day after Brown was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a neighbor in New York City’s Brooklyn borough.

Police said that the two women got into a fight over the rapper blasting her car stereo and that, when they passed each other on the street a few days later, Brown hurled her BlackBerry device at the woman, cutting her lip and knocking a tooth loose.

Brown is already on probation after pleading guilty to assault in a 2004 dispute over paying for a manicure.

The jolt set off a tsunami that swamped San Juan Bautista village on Robinson Crusoe Island off Chile, killing at least five people and leaving 11 missing, said Guillermo de la Masa, head of the government emergency bureau for the Valparaiso region

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Rescuers edged their way toward quake victims trapped in a toppled apartment block early Sunday, as looters stole food and robbed banks after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Chile.

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On Sunday afternoon state television was reporting more than 350 deaths in the coastal town of Constitution, some caused by a tsunami that swept the city, according to a Reuters report. It was unclear how this number affected the overall death toll.

The tsunami caused by the quake that swept across the Pacific devastated coastal communities near the epicenter, but caused little damage in other countries, after precautionary evacuations of hundreds of thousands of people. The tsunami warning was lifted a day after the earthquake.

President Michelle Bachelet, who leaves office March 11, declared a « state of catastrophe » in central Chile. « It was a catastrophe of devastating consequences, » she said.

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The quake tore apart houses, bridges and highways, and Chileans near the epicenter were thrown from their beds by the force of the mega-quake, which was felt as far away as Sao Paulo in Brazil – 1,800 miles to the east.

Officials said earlier they had counted 214 dead, but more victims were being found. « At the moment there are some 300 fatalities, » Jose Abumohor, a duty chief at the National Emergency Agency, said Sunday.

The full extent of damage remained unclear. Ninety aftershocks of magnitude 5 or greater shuddered across the disaster prone Andean nation within 24 hours of the initial quake. One was nearly as powerful as Haiti’s devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.

Ninety aftershocks of magnitude 5 or greater followed the initial quake, which measured 8.8. One aftershock was nearly as powerful as the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January.

In the capital Santiago, 200 miles to the northeast of the epicenter, the national Fine Arts Museum was badly damaged and an apartment building’s two-story parking lot pancaked, smashing about 50 cars.

Santiago’s airport was closed and its subway shut down.

Speaking on CBS’ « Face the Nation » this morning, Pascal Bonnefoy, a journalist with GlobalPost, reports that Santiago is pretty much under control, with 80% of the population already with electricity restored and public transit partially restored.

But south of the capital, Bonnefoy said, is another matter.

« Down south it’s been a disaster, because the coastal line was completely wiped out, » she said. « That’s the most affected area. There are towns that are basically on the floor now. No local government is functioning because there’s nowhere to function from. »

She said Concepcion, Chile’s second-largest city, which was 70 miles from the quake’s epicenter, was heavily affected.

Police said more than 100 people died in Concepcion, the largest city near the epicenter with more than 200,000 people. The university was among the buildings that caught fire around the city as gas and power lines snapped. Many streets were littered with rubble from edifices and inmates escaped from a nearby prison.

The city’s old houses made of adobe appeared to have borne the brunt of the damage, but a 15-story apartment building also collapsed, likely killing or trapping many people inside.

The city’s streets were strewn with crushed cars, fallen power lines and rubble from fallen buildings. Inmates have escaped from a nearby prison.

The largest building damaged in Concepcion was a newly opened 15-story apartment that toppled backward, trapping an estimated 60 people inside apartments where the floors suddenly became vertical and the contents of every room slammed down onto rear walls.

« It fell at the moment the earthquake began, » said 4th Lt. Juan Schulmeyer of Concepcion’s 7th Firefighter Company, pointing to where the foundation collapsed. A full 24 hours later, only 16 people had been pulled out alive, and six bodies had been recovered.

Rescuers heard a woman call out at 11 p.m. Saturday from what seemed like the 6th floor, but hours later they were making slow progress in reaching her. Rescuers were working with two power saws and an electric hammer on a generator, but their supply of gas was running out and it was taking them a frustrating hour and a half to cut each hole through the concrete.

« It’s very difficult working in the dark with aftershocks, and inside it’s complicated. The apartments are totally destroyed. You have to work with great caution, » said Paulo Klein, who was leading a group of rescue specialists from Puerto Montt. They flew in on an air force plane with just the equipment they could carry. Heavy equipment was coming later along with 12 other rescuers.

Desperate Chileans swarmed a supermarket loading dock in the city of Concepcion on Sunday, taking with them whatever they could carry. Merchandise was thrown to the multitude outside and those who caught something turned to run as the police were nearing the scene.

« I think it is necessity. We don’t have water. We don’t have anything to eat, » said one woman. « I have a baby and I don’t have diapers. I don’t have anything. »

One man was bold enough to carry away what looked like a dishwasher.

Police used water cannon and tear gas to scatter the looters.

In the village of Reumen, a tractor trailer slammed into a dangling pedestrian overpass and 40 tons of concrete and steel crunched the truck, covering Chile’s main highway with smashed grapes, tomatoes and cucumbers – one of several overpasses toppled along the highway.

Truck driver Jaime Musso, 53, thought his truck was being buffeted by strong winds and by the time he saw the overpass hanging down over Highway 5 there was no chance of stopping, so he aimed for the spot where he thought he would cause the least damage and brought down the overpass onto his truck. He said he survived « by millimeters. »

As night fell Saturday, about a dozen men and children sat around a bonfire in the remains of their homes in Curico, a town 122 miles south of the capital, Santiago.

« We were sleeping when we felt the quake, very strongly. I got up and went out the door. When I looked back my bed was covered in rubble, » said survivor Claudio Palma.

Chile’s main seaport, in Valparaiso, was ordered closed while damage was assessed. Two oil refineries shut down. The state-run Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, halted work at two of its mines, but said it expected them to resume operations quickly.

The jolt set off a tsunami that swamped San Juan Bautista village on Robinson Crusoe Island off Chile, killing at least five people and leaving 11 missing, said Guillermo de la Masa, head of the government emergency bureau for the Valparaiso region.

On the mainland, several huge waves inundated part of the major port city of Talcahuano, near hard-hit Concepcion. A large boat was swept more than a block inland.

State television showed scenes of devastation in coastal towns, where houses were blasted away by water, leaving scraps of wood and metal – and complaints of homeless quake victims that officials had not yet brought water or food.

The surge of water raced across the Pacific, setting off alarm sirens in Hawaii, Polynesia and Tonga, but the tsunami waves proved small and did little damage as they reached as far as Japan.

Robert Williams, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey, 부산출장샵 said the Chilean quake was hundreds of times more powerful than Haiti’s magnitude-7 quake, though it was deeper and cost far fewer lives.

The largest earthquake ever recorded struck the same area of Chile on May 22, 1960. The magnitude-9.5 quake killed 1,655 people and made 2 million homeless. Saturday’s quake matched a 1906 temblor off the Ecuadorean coast as the seventh-strongest ever recorded in the world.

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And yet, says Vartan, « I’m a lot more sensitive than anyone would really know, and it’s definitely interesting to portray that in a character. »

As the star of ABC’s hour-long fall dramedy « Big Shots, » the former « Alias » secret agent is just one of a number of actors playing complex, 서울출장샵 emotionally evolved, heterosexual alpha males putting their softer side on display in prime time.

In the late 1990s, « Sex and the City » ushered in a new portrait of single women with their frank discussions of their sexual exploits, desires, fantasies and beliefs about men. Of late, however, it’s the less-fair sex going sensitive.

In a number of broadcast ensembles premiering this fall, men are opening up about issues beyond sports, money, power and sexual conquests. They’re expressing their feelings — often to other men — on fatherhood, intimacy and love.

One such series is ABC’s « Carpoolers, » which centers on commuter pals who commiserate about everything from their jobs and their wives (« If we don’t provide for our women, do they really need us? » queries one character) to their personal secrets (one confesses to losing his virginity to Air Supply’s syrupy ’80s ballad « All Out of Love. »)

« The whole idea behind the car pool is that anything can be said, » says co-star T.J. Miller. « It’s almost like the huddle before they go into the football game that is life. Then they go back into the huddle because there’s another game at home. So it’s guys trying to figure stuff out and wanting to get the perspective of other guys. »

Other series featuring men bonding include HBO’s popular comedy, « Entourage, » just renewed for a fifth season and CBS’ returning « Rules of Engagement, » highlighting the friendship of three men: one married, one engaged and one happily playing the field. Then there’s the new ABC sitcom, « Cavemen, » which follows a group of modern-day Cro-Magnon men who are far more enlightened than their counterparts in the days before fire.

« There’s a bit of an evolution, the idea of male bonding, which has always been around in entertainment, but in the past it was done with a little more machismo, » says Nicole Vecchiarelli, entertainment director of Details, a men’s fashion and lifestyle magazine. « But in the post metrosexual era guys bonding isn’t necessarily about guns and action and high testosterone activity. They’re exposing their more sensitive side because that’s a reflection of the typical urban male. »

Although the idea of the metrosexual man focused on outward appearances, where men were as conscious about the way they looked — and smelled — as women, « now it seems they can, on the inside, feel a little bit more like girls and that’s still OK, » adds Vecchiarelli.

The men in « Big Shots » are very in touch with their feminine sides. Vartan, Dylan McDermott, Joshua Malina and Christopher Titus play high-powered Manhattan CEOs with everything in the world they could want, except for stable relationships at home. In the pilot, the men groan so much about their dysfunctional marriages, their need for intimacy and fidelity, McDermott’s character declares: « Men. We’re the new women. »

Series creator and executive producer Jon Harmon Feldman believes that men are now having « to deal with traditional female issues of fidelity, rejection or the challenges of love or making relationships work. We’re trying to attack those (issues) in a way that is true to how men would deal with it and hopefully bring a glimpse into men that women might not ordinarily get. »

But « Carpoolers » scribe Kit Boss argues that there has to be a line drawn on all this male camaraderie. « I just wrote an episode that answers the question: Are they friend friends or car-pool friends? In the case of that story, we definitely looked for a way to undercut anything that felt too emotional or too sensitive. »

For example, one of the characters, happy to find out that they were more than car-pool pals, goes for a hug. « The guy he was going to hug said: ‘Whoa, we’re not girlfriends. We’re friends.’ … To me, the danger would be: Does this match the reality that I know? I generally find more humor in the inability to express one’s self … than in being able to be more highly evolved as a male. »

That’s how TV has traditionally handled the topic of men and their hearts, with humor. It was the case with the father and son stories of « The Andy Griffith Show » and « The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, » workplace comedies like « Barney Miller » and « Cheers, » buddy romps like, « The Odd Couple » or the long-running « Frasier. »

« Male bonding, from whatever perspective, there’s just something silly about it, » says « Rules » star Patrick Warburton. « Personally, with me, just hanging out with my buddies playing some golf, playing some poker and, of course when I get my drink on out in the barn and I’m watching DVDs of Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains, if you’re a female it’s got to be silly — the same way, you know, that you’re a guy and you’re watching ‘Sex and the City, »‘ he says, laughing.

Generally, dramas featuring sensitive men have had a tough time garnering large audiences, female or male. HBO’s comedy « The Mind of a Married Man » (2001) only lasted a season. And of the 2006 releases: NBC’s sitcom « Four Kings, » CBS’ hour-long « Love Monkey, » and the ABC drama, « What About Brian, » all came and went.

« One of the things that I loved about Brian was that he was so much of who guys are, the modern man, a little more sensitive, a little more open about showing certain feelings, » says « What About Brian » lead Barry Watson. « I think the reason why ‘Brian’ still isn’t going on actually doesn’t have anything to do with that — at least I would hope not. »

« We still have a deep-seated need for the man being the rescuer, the man being the hero, » says Warren Farrell, author of numerous books on men, including the best-seller, « Why Men Are the Way They Are. » « We’re sending a huge mixed message to men. First we want the football player and then we blame him for being rough and insensitive with women. »

Kevin Kay, general manager and executive vice president of men’s cable network, Spike TV, contends that broadcast executives — driven by advertisers — have long been interested in courting female audiences, so shows about men need to appeal to women. « I think that for advertisers, safer, cleaner, not as risky, not as edgy, more mainstream … that tends to fall more into the category of shows that women want to watch. »

« The Sopranos, » to some extent, « is a good example of that, » says Kay. « The way Tony Soprano and his guys hung out … you see the way guys talk to guys when nobody else is around. That’s the ability of cable TV to be a little more edgy. »

« Big Shots’  » Feldman realizes that « there’s a natural skepticism among men to embrace male characters unless you can prove to them that they are real men, which I think to men means they are not overly indulgent with their feelings. So you’re kind of walking a line. You want to write men that women find appealing and also men find appealing, which is sometimes paradoxical. That’s the challenge. »

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Former « Daily Show » host Jon Stewart opened up about his reaction to news that his friend, comedian Louis C.K., admitted to masturbating in front of women and using his influence « irresponsibly. »

On the « Today » show, when asked how he felt about the admission, Stewart said, « Stunned, I think. » 

He continued, « You give your friends the benefit of the doubt. I tried to think of it in terms of, I’ve had have friends who have compulsions and have done things — gambling drinking or drugs — and we’ve lost some of them. Some of them have died and you always find yourself at a moment of, ‘Did I miss something? Could I have done more?’ And in this situation, I think we all could have. So you feel anger at what he did to people. »

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Stewart conceded, « Look, comedy on its best day is not a great environment for women. The idea that there was this added layer of pressure and manipulation and fear and humiliation … I think it’s a question of, we’re used to being in charge, and I think if you talk to women, they’re in a very difficult position, and you get mad at yourself, too, for laughing it off or for thinking, ‘That didn’t happen.’ And it’s hard. »

Stewart also addressed a May 2016 conversation in which he dismissed the rumors about C.K. During a podcast taping for David Axelrod’s « The Axe Files, » Stewart laughed off a question about why he hadn’t spoken up about the rumors about C.K. and 서울출장샵 said, « So the internet said Louis harassed women? … I don’t know what you’re talking about. » 

On « Today, » Stewart said, « I was like, ‘Look, I know this is very serious, but I know Louis, he’s always been a gentleman to me,’ which, again, it speaks to the blindness that I think a man has. » Stewart said that was the first he had heard of the rumors. 

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The former « Daily Show » host said he hopes the explosion of sexual harassment allegations against powerful men will bring about change. 

« It’s another one of those endemic, systemic and complex problems that we all haven’t had the urgency for, certainly myself included, » he admitted.

Earlier Sunday in Tonga, where up to 50,000 people fled inland hours ahead of the tsunami, the National Disaster Office had reports of a wave up to 6.5 feet high hitting a small northern island, deputy director Mali’u Takai said

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The first tsunami from the Chile quake hit Japan’s outlying islands on Sunday, but the initial waves were small, though officials warned a bigger surge of water could reach the country’s main islands.

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Japan put all of its eastern coastline on tsunami alert Sunday and ordered hundreds of thousands of residents in low-lying areas to seek higher ground as waves generated by an earthquake off Chile raced across the Pacific at hundreds of miles (kilometers) per hour.

It was the first such alert for Japan’s coasts in almost 20 years.

Towns along northern coasts issued evacuation orders to hundreds of thousands of residents. Japan’s national broadcaster NHK switched to emergency mode, broadcasting a map with the areas in most danger and repeatedly urging caution.

As the wave continued its expansion across the ocean, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said its tsunami alert applied to its entire Pacific coast, with the waves expected to be biggest in the north.

In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano told a hastily called news conference that the government has set up a crisis control task force to deal with the possible tsunami danger.

« We will do our utmost to minimize the possible tsunami damage, » Hirano said.

In Hawaii, after a day of several tide fluctuations, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center lifted a warning threatening the Aloha State.

Towns along northern coasts issued evacuation orders to hundreds of thousands of residents, and 인천출장샵 authorities urged people close to the shore to head for higher ground.

People packed their families into cars, but there were no reports of panic or traffic jams. Fishermen secured their boats, and police officers patrolled beaches, using sirens and loudspeakers to warn people to leave the area.

Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau said Sunday morning that a tsunami could hit the island’s eastern coast. It gave no estimate on wave size but warned the public against going near the sea. The Philippines was also watching for waves.

Earlier Sunday in Tonga, where up to 50,000 people fled inland hours ahead of the tsunami, the National Disaster Office had reports of a wave up to 6.5 feet high hitting a small northern island, deputy director Mali’u Takai said.

« That wave is reported in the Vava’u outer islands, » he told The Associated Press, adding that earlier reports were that a nearly 3.5 feet wave had hit the northern group. There were no initial indications of damage.

Nine people died in Tonga last September when the Samoa tsunami slammed the small northern island of Niuatoputapu, wiping out half of the main settlement.

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In Samoa, where 183 people died in the tsunami five months ago, thousands of people Sunday morning remained in the hills above the coasts on the main island of Upolu, but police said there were no reports of waves or sea surges hitting the South Pacific nation.

In Fiji by midmorning Sunday, disaster management office duty officer Anthony Blake said no unusual wave activity had been reported.

« There has been no surges at all, » he told AP, but people who evacuated from coastal towns and villages should stay away from beaches for at least more six hours.

Blake said coastal evacuations had taken place on Vanua Levu, Fiji’s second biggest island, and in the Lau and Lomaiviti island groups. About a third of Fiji’s 800,000 people live in those areas, he said.

Police and emergency services are on alert for waves of between 1.9 and 7.5 feet on the northern and eastern islands of the archipelago.

In Japan, a tsunami of up to 9.8 feet was expected to hit the northern prefectures of Aomori, Iwate and Miyagi at about 1:30 p.m. local time (11:30 p.m. Eastern time). Waves of about 3.2 feet were expected in the Tokyo Bay area at about 2:30 p.m. local time, the Meteorological Agency said.

The town of Kamaishi in Iwate prefecture (state), where the major tsunami is expected, issued evacuation orders to its 14,000 coastal residents through its community radio system, urging them to go to designated community centers and other facilities, according to town official Masashi Suenaga.

The issuance of the major tsunami alert is the first for Japan since July 1993, when a tsunami triggered by a major earthquake off Japan’s northern coast killed more than 200 people on a small island of Okushiri.

Villagers living close to the Philippines’ eastern coast were advised to move to higher ground, said Renato Solidum, the chief of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. He said a wave of about 3.2 feet high could hit early in the afternoon.

« We’re not expecting any huge tsunami so we’re just urging everybody to take precautions, » Solidum told The Associated Press.

On New Zealand’s Chatham Islands earlier Sunday, officials reported a wave measured at 6.6 feet.

Oceanographer Ken Gledhill said it was typical tsunami behavior when the sea water dropped a meter off North Island’s east coast at Gisborne then surged back.

Several hundred people in the North Island coastal cities of Gisborne and Napier were evacuated from their homes and from camp grounds, while residents in low-lying areas on South Island’s Banks Peninsula were alerted to be ready to evacuate.

In the Cook Islands the police issued an all-clear midmorning Sunday after the tsunami caused a minor tidal surge of a few centimeters.

In Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology reported a tsunami measuring 1.6 feet off Norfolk Island, about 1,000 miles northeast of Sydney.

There were no immediate reports of damage and no evacuations were ordered. A tsunami warning remained in effect by late morning Sunday for much of Australia’s east coast – from Queensland state in the north to Tasmania in the south.

« Do not go to the coast to watch the tsunami, » the Bureau of Meteorology’s alert said. « Check that your neighbors have received this advice. Boats in close should return quickly if possible. Boats in deep water should stay offshore until further advised. »

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The teen comedy from Sony, the misadventures of two high school buddies trying to score booze, took in $31.2 million to debut as the weekend’s No. 1 movie, according to studio estimates Sunday.

« Superbad » knocked off the previous weekend’s top flick, New Line’s « Rush Hour 3, » which slipped to second place with $21.8 million, raising its total to $88.2 million.

The Warner Bros. sci-fi tale « The Invasion, » starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig in an update of « Invasion of the Body Snatchers, » opened a weak No. 5 with $6 million.

« Superbad » maintains the pattern of producer Judd Apatow’s earlier hits, « Knocked Up » and « The 40-Year-Old Virgin, » which he directed. Apatow and his collaborators, including « Knocked Up » star and « Superbad » co-writer and co-star Seth Rogen, have a knack for packaging crude, R-rated humor with clever, authentic dialogue far smarter than what’s normally seen in summer comedies.

Shot on a modest $20 million budget, « Superbad » had a slightly better debut than « Knocked Up, » which opened in June with $30.7 million and went on become a $100 million hit.

« I think a genuinely funny movie always has a shot at doing well, because so few movies are really funny, » Apatow told The Associated Press as he headed to the « Knocked Up » premiere Sunday at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in Scotland.

« Superbad, » co-written by Rogen and his high school best friend Evan Goldberg, stars Jonah Hill and Michael Cera as pals on a quest for alcohol to impress the foxy host of a party. Rogen co-stars as an inept cop who ends up carousing with the teens, while Christopher Mintz-Plasse proves a scene-stealer as Hill and Cera’s super-geeky friend.

Though centering on high schoolers, « Superbad » drew in older crowds, with 40 percent of the audience over 30, said Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony.

« The Apatow comedy machine itself is a brand now, and it’s a brand that has created movies that appeal to older audiences who now follow whatever he does, even in the teen genre, which is very unusual, » said Paul Dergarabedian, 경기도출장샵 president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers.

Overall Hollywood revenues rose with the top 12 movies taking in $110.5 million, up 21 percent from the same weekend last year, when « Snakes on a Plane » opened at No. 1 with $15.2 million. Movie attendance is running 5 percent ahead of last summer’s, according to Media By Numbers.

The Weinstein Co. release « The Last Legion, » featuring Ben Kingsley in an action tale set in ancient Rome, tanked with just $2.6 million, finishing at No. 12.

In narrower release, MGM’s comedy « Death at a Funeral, » a tale of outrageous goings-on at a British patriarch’s farewell, opened solidly with $1.3 million.

Warner Independent’s « The 11th Hour, » a global-crisis documentary on ecological issues co-written, co-produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, debuted well in four theaters with $56,000.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Monday.

1. « Superbad, » $31.2 million.

2. « Rush Hour 3, » $21.8 million.

3. « The Bourne Ultimatum, » $19 million.

4. « The Simpsons Movie, » $6.7 million.

5. « The Invasion, » $6 million.

6. « Stardust, » $5.2 million.

7. « Hairspray, » $4.3 million.

8. « Underdog, » $3.6 million.

9. « Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, » $3.54 million.

10. « I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, » $3.5 million.By DAVID GERMAIN