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8.8-Magnitude Quake Strikes Chile

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The New York Times: The quake downed buildings and houses in Santiago and knocked out a major bridge connecting the northern and southern sections of the country.





It struck at 3:34 a.m. local time and was centered about 200 miles southwest of Santiago, at a depth of 22 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The epicenter was some 70 miles from Concepcion, Chile’s second-largest city, where more than 200,000 people live.


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