Magnitude-7.1 quake shakes hundreds in southern Chile

Monday, January 3, 2011

SANTIAGO, Chile -- A magnitude-7.1 earthquake shook southern Chile on Sunday, frightening hundreds of people who fled for higher ground fearing it could generate a tsunami like the one that ravaged the coastline last year.

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