A deadly 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile early Saturday, collapsing
buildings, shattering major bridges and highways across a long strip of the country,
and sending tsunami warnings along the Pacific basin.
The Associated Press quoted Mrs. Bachelet as saying that a huge wave had swept
into a populated area in Robinson Crusoe Island, 410 miles off the Chilean coast,
but there were no immediate reports of major damage there. Those reports bore
out early fears that a major tsunami was on its way across the Pacific, and the first
hemispherewide tsunami warning since 1964 was issued all along the basin, according
to monitors in Hawaii.
Source: Nytimes.com
