KDNK's Raleigh Burleigh Reports on Earthquake From Chile

KDNK | By Raleigh Burleigh

Published January 22, 2019 at 5:43 PM MST

On January 19th, about 24 hours before a total lunar eclipse, a 6.7-magnitude earthquake rattled Tongoy, Chile. KDNK’s Raleigh Burleigh, who is in Chile, was attending an opera at the time. He sent us this lyrical dispatch describing the experience of riding out the shaking earth as the choir continued to sing:

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Raleigh Burleigh was raised in the historic floodplanes of Satank. The Carbondale Rotary Club sponsored him as a youth ambassador to Chile the year before his graduation from Roaring Fork High School. He studied International Affairs and Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder then applied those studies traveling throughout South America the following year. Returning to Carbondale thereafter, Raleigh acquired an internship with KDNK News which led to the opportunity to serve as News Director from 2017 to 2019. After another trip to South America in early 2019, Raleigh Burleigh drew deeper into the confluence as Program Director at KDNK. Raleigh now serves on KDNK's board of directors and as editor of Carbondale's weekly newspaper, The Sopris Sun.

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