Great Earthquakes In Diverse Places
Two killed in Argentina earthquake
* From correspondents in Buenos Aires
* From: AFP
* February 28, 2010 9:17AM
A 6.0-MAGNITUDE earthquake killed two people in Argentina today just
hours after a massive quake struck off Chile leaving hundreds feared
dead and setting off a tsunami, a doctor said.
An eight-year-old child and a 70-year-old man were killed when the
quake struck in Salta province in Argentina's mountainous northwest,
said Carmen Castillo, a doctor at the local hospital.
Dr Castillo said two other children were injured when masonry fell on
them during the quake, which was measured at 6.0 by the Argentine
monitoring service INPRES.
INPRES said it was a separate earthquake and not an aftershock from the
massive 8.8-magnitude quake that struck Chile some nine hours earlier,
killing at least 1250 people and sending tsunami waves thousands of
kilometres across the Pacific.