Iquique, Chile News

People look at a creation titled "El pensamiento del pensamiento" during the Santiago Art Triennial Exhibition.

A strong, shallow earthquake struck the coast of northern Chile this afternoon New Zealand time.

Seismologists say a strong earthquake has struck northern Chile. The U.S. Geological Survey says the 6.5-magnitude quake's epicenter is between the cities of Iquique and Arica, about 60 miles from each.

"Elemental's contribution to the canon of social housing came from an almost impossible question.

Master Sgt. Vincent Jones hands out candy to sixth-grade students of Colegio Macaya during a joint U.S./Chilean air force visit to the school Oct.

Did you feel it? Report shaking and damage at your location. You can also view a map displaying accumulated data from your report and others.

A Chilean F-16 approaches the boom of a U.S. KC-135 Stratotanker during a refueling mission Oct.

Senior Airman Nelson Santiago performs an hourly check on a portable tactical navigation aid during Exercise Salitre, a Chilean-led multinational exercise focused on interoperability between Chile, the United States, France, Argentina and Brazil Oct.

17 to Nov. 2 in Antofagasta and Iquique, Chile. The effort can be challenging, considering France, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and the United States are learning to work together in a coalition environment while planning a large-scale peacekeeping operation.

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Chile's second largest carrier, Sky Airline, is evaluating the Airbus A319 and Boeing 737-700 to complement its fleet of 10 Boeing 737-200s. ATI reported in August that Sky had begun talking to Airbus, Boeing and leasing companies about the availability of new aircraft for 2010.

A BEACHED sperm whale has died in northern Chile. Regional fisheries service director Maria Soledad Tapia says the whale beached itself after a fishing net snagged its fin near the coastal city of Iquique.

For decades, scores of public figures who shaped South American history and culture have passed through or made their home in the Chilean port-city of Valparaso; people like revolutionary-turned-pop-culture icon Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Chilean Nobel Prize winning poet Pablo Neruda, and even military dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Sea lions are starving to death in unusual numbers along Chilea s northern coast, signaling the weather shift known as El Nino is taking hold in the Pacific.

A transit day. Early to the airport, then a flight to Santiago via Iquique. Chile is really backward in terms of the airport infrastructure.

In one of the driest regions on earth, even a drizzle can cause an emergency. Less than 100th of an inch of rain fell on the Chilean port city of Iquique Monday afternoon, accompanied by moderate winds of about 10 mph , according to the country's weather service.

Beverly Holweger and Audrey Henson thumbed through a Bible on Sunday they thought they would never see again.