SANTIAGO, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- A 5.5 magnitude earthquake rocked northern Chile on Friday, with no reports of casualties and property damage, local authorities said.

SANTIAGO, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- A 5.5 magnitude earthquake rocked northern Chile on Friday, with no reports of casualties and property damage, local authorities said. The National Seismological ...

Can one imagine what a quake with double the magnitude would be like? It turns out such an event is not purely hypothetical—it happened not so long ago. In 1960, in the Chilean province of Valdivia, a ...

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake hit northern Chile, according to the German Research Center for Geosciences. The quake was recorded at a depth of 122 kilometers. No immediate reports of damage have been ...

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An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck Antofagasta, Chile on Thursday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 104 km (64.62 miles), EMSC added. There ...

Wrecked houses and businesses were visible in images of other affected seaside towns and cities. Significant flooding was also reported in Illapel President Bachelet said on Thursday morning that ...

Calama [Chile], January 3 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck near Calama in Chile on Thursday evening (local time), according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A 6.4 magnitude earthquake shook central Chile on Friday but there were no immediate reports of damage and a tsunami was ruled out. The United States Geological Survey ...

The Chilean quake was a thrust earthquake, which occurs when a large section of the Earth's surface, in this case, the Nasca tectonic plate, dives beneath an adjacent plate. The fifth largest ...