Strong quake shakes Chile, no reports of damage.

A powerful 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck near Chile's eastern coastal port of Valparaiso early on Tuesday, shaking buildings as far away as the capital Santiago, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries and the country's main copper mines were unaffected, Reuters reports.

State emergency office ONEMI said a stretch of coastline was being evacuated as a precaution, but there was no tsunami alert.
The quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey measured at magnitude 6.5, struck 26 miles (42 km) north-northeast of Valparaiso, and 69 miles (112 km) northwest of the capital Santiago at a depth of 16.1 miles (25.9 km).
"We have no reports of any damage or injuries so far," a spokesman for ONEMI told Reuters. Local media said basic services like power and telecommunications mostly continued to operate normally, although several thousand homes were without power outside Santiago.