Strong earthquake kills 8 in Chile
Eight people were killed in the strong earthquake that jolted Tarapaca of Chile on Monday morning and no Chinese nor overseas Chinese was reported in casualty, according to local authorities.

The quake measuring 8.1 on the Richter Scale occurred at 6:44 a.m. Beijing time on Tuesday (GMT 22:44 on Monday).

According to China's earthquake monitoring network, the epicenter was located at 19.9 degree south latitude and 69.2 degree west longitude, about 110 kilometers northeast of Tarapaca's capital Iquique and some 1,800 kilometers north of Santiago, the Chilean capital.

Although the epicenter is in the sparsely-populated mountain areas of the Andes, some large cities, like Iquique and Arica, suffered from a cut-off of power and water supply, local government announced.