Concepcion

His mother, Concepcion, 35, says she noticed something was wrong as Junrey approached the age of two but no doctor was able to help.

"He was always sick and we noticed he wasn't growing so we took him to see a doctor but they were baffled, " she says.

Meanwhile rescue teams are still trying to reach dozens of people believed to be trapped in a collapsed block of flats in Concepcion.

An air bridge has been set up between Santiago and Concepcion, with 100 tons of food aid due in the next few hours.

BBC team that reached the town of Curico, between Santiago and Concepcion, said 90% of the town historic centre had been damaged.

As the recovery effort continues, Chilean troops are working to stop the looting and violence that brought chaos to cities like Concepcion.

Closer to the quake, scores of residents were feared trapped in an apartment building that toppled onto its side in the city of Concepcion.

The quake, which killed at least 147 people, struck in central Chile, 70 miles northeast of the city of Concepcion.

Concepcion was the city closest to the epicenter of the earthquake.

The mayor of the largest Chilean city near the epicenter of Saturday's quake says food aid is arriving in Concepcion.

I was in La Serena, a city located about 700 kilometres from Concepcion, but still, it was the worst thing I've felt.

Meanwhile President Bachelet dispatched 10, 000 soldiers to quell looting around the hardest hit city of Concepcion.

Concepcion Llorente, a first-grade teacher in La Gloria, says authorities still owe the town some answers.

Concepcion is under another night under curfew, which has been extended to be in force from 2000 (2300 GMT) until noon on Tuesday.

There's actually a nightclub in the town of La Linea de la Concepcion, where I teach, named after this word.

Pic. : Residents look at a building in Concepcion, Chile, that collapsed during the Feb. 27 earthquake.

Tsunami alerts were also heard in the coastal towns of Concepcion and Constitucion, according to local radio broadcasts.

Scientists say the 8. 8 magnitude earthquake that devastated the Chilean city of Concepcion shifted it more than three meters to the west.

Arturo Echeverria died in Chile's 1939 earthquake. His body was found three days later near Concepcion's main square.

The epicentre was 70 miles from Concepcion, Chile's second largest city, with a population of about 670, 000.

And still I know nothing of my family in Concepcion.

A couple walks past a destroyed statue of Chile's National Hero Bernardo O'Higgins in Concepcion, southern Chile, Sunday, Feb.

The army has been sent to support police to prevent unrest in Concepcion, south of Santiago.

The epicentre of the quake was 115km (70 miles) north-east of Concepcion and 325km (200 miles) south-west of the capital Santiago.

People wait for their mobile phones to charge at a fire station in Concepcion, Chile on March 1, 2010.

The USGS reported the latest aftershock struck 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Concepcion at a depth of 18 miles (29 km).

A boat left stranded inland after a tsunami in the Chilean city of Dichato, some 30 km from Concepcion, on March 1, 2010.

On February 27, an 8. 8-magnitude quake hit Chile near that nation's second largest city, Concepcion.

The magnitude 8. 8 quake that struck near Maule, Chile, Feb. 27 moved the entire city of Concepcion 10 feet to the west.