Earthquakes threatening Chile

Do you know which country is the top producer of copper? Chile! Where? In the mountainous northern part, where there have been 300 earthquakes in the last week! Luis Andres Henao reports that

Chile is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. A magnitude-8.8 quake and ensuing tsunami in central Chile in 2010 killed more than 500 people, destroyed 220,000 homes, and washed away docks, riverfronts and seaside resorts.

The strongest earthquake ever recorded on Earth also happened in Chile — a magnitude-9.5 tremor in 1960 that killed more than 5,000 people.

The 2010 quake released so much energy it shortened the Earth's day slightly by changing the planet's rotation.

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