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Strong quake shakes Chile, no reports of damage Apr 17th 2012, 05:14 SANTIAGO | Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:50am EDT SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A powerful 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck near Chile's eastern coastal port of Valparaiso early on Tuesday, shaking buildings as far away as the capital Santiago, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries and the country's main copper mines were unaffected. State emergency office ONEMI said a stretch of coastline was being evacuated as a precaution, but there was no tsunami alert. The quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey measured at magnitude 6.5, struck 26 miles north-northeast of Valparaiso, and 69 miles northwest of the capital Santiago at a depth of 16.1 miles, it said. "We have no reports of any damage or injuries so far," a spokesman for ONEMI told Reuters. Local media said basic services like power and telecommunications continued to operate normally The USGS initially said the quake was a magnitude 6.6. State mining giant Codelco, the world's No.1 copper producer, said its operations were not impacted by the quake, as did global miner Anglo American. Chile is prone to earthquakes, and was hammered by a massive tremor in early 2010 which ravaged the south-center of the country, devastating industries and triggering tsunamis, which killed hundreds of people. (Reporting by Alexandra Ulmer, Simon Gardner, Antonio de la Jara, Moises Avila, Fabian Cambero, Felipe Iturrieta; Editing by David Brunnstrom) Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

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