The Chilean authorities announced on Wednesday that they had evacuated around 1.4 million people on the coast, to shelter them from the tsunami caused by the gigantic earthquake in the Pacific off Russia.
“At the national level, it is estimated that 1,400,000 people” were evacuated from the coastal areas, the Minister of the Interior Alvaro Elizalde told the press, after the arrival of the first waves of tsunami in the country without any damage having been reported immediately.
An earthquake of magnitude 8.8, the most powerful in the region in almost 73 years, took place Tuesday off the Russian Kamchatka peninsula, causing alerts to the tsunami in many countries of the Pacific.
