Tsunami alert after powerful quake off Chile


  • World
  • Sunday, 25 Dec 2016

SANTIAGO: A powerful Christmas Day earthquake hit southern Chile on Sunday, triggering tsunami warnings and an evacuation order.

The quake registered 7.7 on the Moment Magnitude scale according to seismologists at the US Geological Survey, and 7.6 for the Chilean government’s national emergencies office ONEMI.

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