Moderate 5.7 quake strikes off Chile—USGS
A moderate 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on Sunday, according to the US Geological Survey, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
A moderate 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on Sunday, according to the US Geological Survey, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
At least 15 people were killed and 19 injured on Saturday when a bus carrying soccer fans plunged into a ravine in central Chile, a local official said.
A strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake jolted northern Chile Wednesday, US monitors said, knocking out electricity and local telecom services but no immediate tsunami warning was issued.
Chile is planning a new research base in Antarctica that will be the closest outpost to the South Pole of any ever built on the frozen continent, President Sebastian Pinera announced.
A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake shook central and northern Chile Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, the National Emergency Office said.
President Benigno Aquino III and his entourage arrived in Manila on Sunday afternoon from the 20th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vladivostok, Russia.
Over a hundred students were arrested in Santiago Thursday in clashes between police and demonstrators demanding better public education, after the occupation of several schools.
Chile’s Congress has passed a hate-crimes law months after a group of alleged neo-Nazis were arrested in the brutal murder of a young gay man.
A moderate 5.5-magnitude earthquake rattled northern Chile on Monday, the latest in a series of temblors to rattle the country in recent months, according to the US Geological Survey.
The Chilean Air Force announced Saturday it has filed administrative charges against 13 of its own officers for their role in a deadly September 2, 2011 plane crash that killed 21 people.
A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of central Chile late Monday but does not appear to have generated a major tsunami, according to US monitors.
Four Brazilians filming a documentary off the Antarctic coast were rescued by the Chilean navy after their ship became stuck in the ice, Chilean media said Monday.
Chilean authorities ordered the evacuation of the central coast of Chile Sunday because of the threat of a tsunami after a 7.1 magnitude quake.
