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People walk along a fissure on a road in Iquique, northern Chile, on Wednesday, a day after a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake hit off Chile’s Pacific coast. The tremor was felt in Chile late Tuesday, killing at least six people and generating tsunami waves that might ripple as far as Indonesia.

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