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A 7.1-magnitude earthquake streaks southern Chile, having its epicenter 96 km northwest of Temuco, not far from the location of the 2010 Chile earthquake.
2011-01-2

SS "Columbia", feared lost at sea after the 8.8-magnitude Chile earthquake, arrives in a Chilean port, more than a month after it was scheduled to dock.
2010-04-12

The Chilean Navy removes Commander Mariano Rojas, head of the oceanography service, from his post following his failure to warn of the tsunami which followed the 2010 Chile earthquake.
2010-03-6

The Chilean Navy admits failure to prevent deaths in the tsunami triggered by the recent earthquake.
2010-03-3

Japan and numerous other countries evacuate coastal residents as a tsunami approaches. Some Japanese homes are flooded by the tsunami.
2010-02-28

The death toll is revealed to be more than 140 at this point.
2010-02-27

New Zealand's Chatham Islands, French Polynesia, Hawaii and Ecuador's Galápagos Islands are among the other world areas struck by the resulting tsunami as the "biggest tsunami warning in history" gets underway.
2010-02-27

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake hits near the city of Concepción, Chile.
2010-02-27

President Michelle Bachelet declares parts of her country as "catastrophe zones" as Pacific Ocean cities brace themselves for potential tsunamis and waves of over 2 metres strike Juan Fernández.
2010-02-27