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 ...

CHILE is one of the great seismically active regions in the world and part of the circum-Pacific ring of instability. During the night of January 24, an earthquake which lasted according to human ...

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 Center ...

Calama: An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck near Chile's Calama on Thursday evening (local time), the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said in a post on X. The earthquake ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The successive earthquakes that hit Santorini overnight, many of which exceeded 4 Richter, caused panic in Rodrigo and Leslie ...