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BREAKING NEWS ***Chile hit by 6.6 quake***

 
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BREAKING NEWS ***Chile hit by 6.6 quake***
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Chile hit by 6.6 quake

From correspondents in Washington | February 05, 2008
AN earthquake measuring 6.6 on the moment magnitude scale rocked northern Chile overnight, the US Geological Survey said.

The quake hit some 40 kilometres, east-northeast of Iquique, in the Tarapaca region close to the Peruvian border and was at a depth of 35 kilometres, the seismologists said.

Chile's National Emergency Office, known as Onemi, was gathering information in the stricken area, but did not have initial reports of injuries or damages, a spokesman said.

Chile's Cooperativa Radio network reported landslides on some roads in the Iquique area, but no reports of injuries.

The Xstrata press office in Chile did not immediately release information about whether the earthquake affected operations at Collahausi.

The Collahausi copper mine, owned by Xstrata Copper and Anglo-American and that produces 8.2 per cent of Chile's copper, is located 160km southeast of Iquique.

A spokeswoman for Chile's government-owned Codelco, the world's top copper miner, said operations at its giant Chuquicamata mine were not affected.

Earthquake-prone Chile lies along the Pacific rim of fire and is regularly rocked by quakes.

Several quakes have rattled the country in recent months, including a deadly 7.7-magnitude earthquake on November 14 that killed two people, injured 15,000, and damaged an estimated 4000 buildings.

US geologists use the moment magnitude scale, which measures the area of the fault that ruptured and the total energy released.





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