Chile Suffers 5.0 Magnitude
Aftershock
SANTIAGO - A quake aftershock
measuring 5.0 degrees on the Richter scale
shook southern Chile region Maule on Sunday,
without reports of damage or injury, in what
experts say an aftershock from Feb. 27's
deadly quake.
The earthquake's epicenter was 35 kilometers
(km) deep and around 92 km north of Maule's
capital Talca, according to the U.S.
Geological Survey. Talca is around 300 km
south of Chile's capital Santiago.
The quake registered between two and four
degrees on the Mercalli scale, which
measures the damage caused by an earth
movement, according to Chile's National
Emergency Office. The Richter scale measures
the energy released by a quake.
Experts say that 480 notable aftershocks
have taken place in the center and south of
Chile since Feb. 27, when a quake measuring
8.8 degrees Richter hit Chile. The February
quake was Chile's second worst on record,
after a 1960 quake that was the strongest
anywhere in the world since records began.
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