Chile News

A bridge that was damaged by the February 27th earthquake is seen on March 9, 2010 in Concepcion, Chile.

Police in Bogot, Colombia failed to prevent riots at a Metallica concert on Wednesday night - more than 100 fans were arrested after violence erupted outside the venue.

Chile's military authorities have eased the curfew by two hours in quake-hit regions Bio Bio and Nuble, the army's most senior official in the region told local broadcaster Radio Bio Bio on Wednesday.

Chile's mining and refinery sectors escaped damage on Thursday as a series of powerful aftershocks rocked the world's largest copper producer in the wake of one of the biggest earthquakes ever recorded.

One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded tore apart houses, bridges and highways in central Chile on Saturday and sent a tsunami racing halfway around the world.

Police in Bogata, Colombia are going to extreme measures to prevent a repeat of the trouble which marred Metallica's concert in Chile in January - more than 1,500 officials will patrol the streets around Simon Bolivar Park before Wednesday night's show.

Chile's powerful earthquake buried people and homes in a broad section of the coastal south, but it may also have given the country's new right-wing coalition government a chance to entomb the ghosts of the former dictator Gen.

Sebastian Pinera was inaugurated as Chilea s president today minutes after powerful earthquakes shook buildings in Santiago and Valparaiso, stirring memories of last montha s devastating 8.8-magnitude temblor.

Outgoing Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who will leave Chile's presidency Thursday, has sustained the record 84-percent approval rate despite strong criticism of government performance during the nation's earthquake emergency, according to a new poll released Tuesday.

Chile is experiencing a social earthquake in the aftermath of the 8.8 magnitude quake that struck the country on February 27.

Conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera takes office as Chile's new president on Thursday, tasked with rebuilding the country after one of the worst earthquakes ever recorded killed hundreds of people less than two weeks ago.

Chilean and Ecuadorian search crews have scoured their coastlines for a missing Montreal woman, but have made no sightings so far.

The magnitude-8.8 earthquake that rocked the west coast of Chile last month was violent enough to move the city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west and the capital, Santiago, about 11 inches to the west-southwest, researchers said.

A flight bound for the Dominican Republic has returned to an airport gate in Miami because of an unruly passenger.

Chile on Sunday began three days of mourning for those who died in the Feb. 27 devastating earthquake, as disaster relief and aid efforts have been rolled out.

The Red Cross has doubled its aid appeal for Chileans made homeless by last month's massive earthquake, saying the costs of the disaster will be greater than anticipated.

27 was a complicated rupture process, as scientists of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences found out.

Thanks to solid construction and quick thinking, Baker & McKenzie's office in Chile, was in business just two days after the 8.8 earthquake there on Feb.

The US military said Tuesday it was sending dozens of doctors to Chile to provide medical assistance to survivors of last month's earthquake that killed hundreds.

I left Santiago, Chile, with my wife and four children exactly two months before the massive earthquake hit on Feb.