People run after an aftershock in Constitucion, Chile on Thursday. The strongest aftershock since Chile’s Feb. 27 earthquake rocked the country as President Sebastian Pinera was sworn into office.
The 7.2-magnitude aftershock was stronger than the Jan. 12 quake that devastated the Haitian capital. It happened along the same fault zone as Chile's magnitude-8.8 quake on Feb. 27, said geophysicist Don Blakeman at the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado.
The Epicenter was in Rancagua City, some 150 Km south of the Capital santiago. This was the biggest aftershock since the 8.8-magnitude?quake on?Feb. 27 that killed many lives. We will be showing the news reports on this?Chile?Earthquake March 11
Chile's state-owned Codelco, the world's biggest copper producer, evacuated its Ventanas smelter on Chile's central coast after a tsunami warning. The Santiago-based company said there were no reports of problems at its El Teniente and Andina mines after the 6.9 quake, which shook buildings in the capital.
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