SANTIAGO: A powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake hit Chile’s Pacific coast on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila), killing at least five people as tsunami waves of more than two meters lashed the shore.
Panicked residents poured into the streets after the authorities ordered them to flee to higher ground, while President Michelle Bachelet declared parts of northern Chile hit by the offshore quake to be disaster zones.
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