A magnitude-6.2 earthquake on Sunday shook a northern region of Chile that has felt several frightening but inconsequential tremors in recent days. No injuries and only minor damage were reported.
The quake was centred in Putre, about (60 kilometers east of the port of Arica near the border with Peru, and nearly 2,200 kilometers north of the capital, Santiago, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The quake occured about 9:30 a.m. and had a depth of about 110 kilometers, the agency said.
Some people ran out of homes and churches into the streets when they felt the shaking, but there were no reports of injuries, according to Chile's national emergency agency.
The agency said later that some adobe homes were damaged in the northern villages of Putre and Belen, and there were rock slides on a road that connects Chile to Bolivia.
AP
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