“Preventive self-evacuation” is now at the top of my list of euphemisms.
Might be a good tag line for a laxative commercial.
No offense to those who experienced the earthquake. When the moment strikes you just can’t let it pass.
Looks like there’s been a few more, including another over 6.0
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/region/S_America.php
If I was experiencing that earthquake in Chile, you bet that I would be engaged in “preventive self-evacuation” as well. 
That was so moving, Duckster <sniff>.
It takes a lot of intestinal fortitude to make that kind of pun.
Nah. Earthquakes are fun… given you survive them, of course.
I have seen many foreigners scare the s—t with a small quake.