This CNN anchor was on live television when a 6.7 magnitude earthquake hit Chile on Tuesday. ...
10:18 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Santiago: A strong and prolonged earthquake of magnitude 6.5 has shaken central Chile. Authorities have ordered a preventative evacuation of parts of the coastline. The US Geological Survey says the quake's epicenter was 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Valparaiso, Chile, and it had a depth of 15.5 miles (25 kilometers). It struck at just before midnight local time (3:50 Tuesday GMT). Residents say the quake was felt for almost...
10:25 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Santiago: A major quake hit central Chile on Sunday, rattling buildings in the capital and triggering a coastal evacuation, but there was no serious damage and big mines in the world's No. 1 copper producer were operating normally. Residents in Santiago fled their homes as the tremor rattled television sets, kitchen cabinets and tables, and a mayor in the town of Parral in south-central Chile told local radio a 74-year-old...
08:35 AM, Mar 26, 2012
A look at the world's strongest earthquakes and tsunamis: March 20, 2012: A 7.4-magnitude quake with an epicenter in Guerrero state shakes central southern Mexico, swaying buildings in Mexico City. March 11, 2011: A magnitude 8.9 quake strikes off the northeast coast of Japan, sending a tsunami across the Pacific and killing a still-undetermined number of people. October 2011: A 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Turkey claims at least 582 lives, most...
01:51 AM, Mar 21, 2012
Santiago, Chile: Rahil Gangjee was unable to keep up his previous round's momentum and lapsed into a modest round of 72, which saw him slip and finish at tied 23rd in the Chile Classic on the Nationwide Tour. Gangjee, lying tied 13th following a third round of 65, had three birdies and three bogeys in his final round. He birdied the third, sixth and 18th and dropped shots on the...
04:12 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Santiago: Fernando Gonzalez of Chile is set to retire after the Masters tournament next month in Florida. The 31-year-old Gonzalez, who reached No. 5 in the ATP rankings, made the announcement at an emotional news conference on Thursday. He said he no longer had the energy to play at the top level after having been bothered by back, knee and hip injuries for several years. Gonzalez won 11 ATP events...
02:51 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Moscow: A Russian space probe designed to boost the nation's pride on a bold mission to a moon of Mars came down in flames today, showering fragments into the south Pacific west of Chile's coast, officials said. Pieces from the Phobos-Ground, which had become stuck in Earth's orbit, landed in water 1,250 kilometers (775 miles) west of Wellington Island in Chile's south, the Russian military Air and Space Defense Forces...
10:04 AM, Jan 16, 2012
Santiago: Violence has broken out in Chile's capital as tens of thousands of students stage another protest demanding changes in public education. Masked demonstrators burned cars and barricades, looting storefronts and throwing furniture at police. Officers are responding with tear gas and water cannons. Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter says the violence shows student leaders can't control their demonstrators. Tens of thousands of students and teachers earlier marched peacefully in Santiago...
03:31 AM, Aug 10, 2011
New York: The story of the Chilean miners who were trapped underground for more than two months is on its way to the big screen. The 33 miners have sold the rights to their story to producer Mike Medavoy, the producer and the miners' representatives announced Monday. The planned film will recount the remarkable plight of the miners who were trapped for 69 days after the San Jose mine they...
12:49 PM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: On the 107th birth anniversary of Nobel literature laureate Pablo Neruda, a leftist poet who died after the 1973 coup that ousted a socialist government, we pay tribute to some of his best works. Neruda, among Latin America's most renowned literary figures and an active Communist Party member, died of cancer on September 23, 1973 just days after then-president Salvador Allende was toppled and General Augusto Pinochet rose...
02:37 PM, Jul 12, 2011
Caracas: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez turned to philosophy and Twitter to describe his efforts to beat cancer on Monday, summoning the words of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. "I find myself before my highest mountain and my longest walk," Chavez said in a message posted on his Twitter account. "That's how Zarathustra spoke!" That quoted a passage from Nietzsche's treatise "Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None." Nietzsche's book...
01:55 AM, Jul 12, 2011
Santiago: A 6.5-magnitude earthquake rattled a sparsely populated area of northern Chile on Monday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The quake's epicenter was located about 55 miles west of Calama in northern Chile, the US Geological Survey said. The earthquake at 1635 GMT lasted about a minute and was felt most strongly in northern cities including Iquique, Alto Hospicio and Pica. In the port city...
07:54 AM, Jun 21, 2011
Santiago: The ash cloud from a Chilean volcano that has been erupting for nearly two weeks has circled the globe and come home again. The returning cloud - which has disrupted flights in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Australia and New Zealand on its around-the-world trip on Friday forced Chilean officials to cancel domestic flights for the first time since the Cordon Caulle volcano began erupting June 4. LAN airlines suspended flights...
09:50 AM, Jun 18, 2011
Buenos Aires: The cloud of ash spewing from Chile's erupting volcano has grounded more flights in countries from Uruguay to Australia and is threatening to delay next month's start of the Copa America football tournament in Argentina. Argentine Football Association president Julio Grondona says the July 1 start of the Copa America could be pushed back due to cancelations of flights caused by the volcano. Grondona tells the Argentine broadcaster...
01:29 AM, Jun 15, 2011
Buenos Aires: A cloud of ash spewing from a Chilean volcano caused chaos for air travelers in South America again on Monday and grounded flights as far away as New Zealand and Australia, stranding thousands of passengers. Two airports serving Argentina's capital and the main international airport in Uruguay were closed late on Sunday over safety fears sparked by the ash cloud, which has stretched some 10,000 kilometers (6,000 miles)....
01:57 AM, Jun 14, 2011
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