Chile Earthquake 1 April 2014 | 8.2 Chile Earthquake 04.01.2014 | Earthquake in Chile 2014 | Tsunami Waring in Chile 2014
A powerful magnitude-8.2
earthquake struck off northern Chile on Tuesday night, setting off a small
tsunami that forced evacuations along the country's entire Pacific coast.
Officials reported two deaths and several serious injuries, but the area
apparently escaped major damage as landslides blocked roads, power failed for
thousands, an airport was damaged and several businesses caught fire. Major damage was reported to
Highway A16 north of Iquique, a major port city of about 182,000 people at the
edge of Chile’s copper mining Atacama desert region.
Hours later, tsunami warnings
or watches remained in effect for the coasts of Peru and Chile, the Pacific
Tsunami Warning Centre said. Shortly before midnight, Chile's Emergency Office
said its tsunami watch would remain in effect for six more hours, meaning
hundreds of thousands of people along the coast would not sleep in their beds. Although the quake is off the
northern coast, cities up and down the length of the country were put on high
alert, including Talcahuano and Dichato, more than 1,100 miles south, where a
magnitude 8.8 earthquake killed 524 people and destroyed 220,000 homes in 2010.
The strongest earthquake ever
recorded on Earth also happened in Chile — a magnitude-9.5 tremor in 1960 that
killed more than 5,000 people.
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