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Traveling an Earthquake-Damaged Highway by Foot
After last week's earthquake, residents of Iquique, Chile, traveled by foot to reach tsunami-proof higher land.
An earthquake struck Chile's Tarapacá region earlier this morning, registering a 5.2 on the Richter scale. It's the same region hit last week with the 7.6-magnitude earthquake that triggered a tsunami warning and series of aftershocks.
In the port city of Iquique, electricity and clean drinking water has been slow to return. Similar issues persist in Alto Hospicio, an impoverished town of 94,000 people, where thousands of homes were damaged. But Alto Hospicio is also 2,000 feat above sea level, making it a tsunami-proof refuge for people in Iquique.