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Quake off of chile's coast. >> you said it. this is an area that is prone to earthquakes. chile has seen the strongest earthquake, it's soon some of the deadliest. just four years ago, 500 people were killed in an 8.8 quake. it was also at that point that they were a bit slow to order the evacuations for tsunamis, which is why they're so proactive this time around. they've ordered the entire coast evacuated, even though in the capital they didn't even feel it. but they want to make sure that they're airing on the side of caution. they don't want the fatalities that they saw just four years ago...

Tsunamis of two meters or six feet have already washed ashore in northern chile. so we're seeing hundreds, thousands of people moving to higher ground. so far what we've seen is it's been in a fairly orderly fashion. the deputy secretary of the interior said the biggest problem has been traffic jams with all these people trying to locate to safer areas. what he also said is that there has not been any reported deaths. so far no reports of major damage to infrastructure. again, we don't have information about all of the areas, the epicenter was off the coast of the mining town, so we expect to ...