A moderate earthquake rattled northern Chile early Saturday but caused no victims or damage, the government's Emergency Bureau said, according to AP. The tremor struck at 4:29 a.m. (0729 GMT) and was felt in cities and small Andean towns in the Tarapaca and Antofagasta regions, the bureau said. The University of Chile's Seismological Institute said the tremor had a magnitude of 5.9 and that its epicenter was 59 kilometers (28 miles) west of San Pedro de Atacama, a popular Andean tourist town. The U.S. Geological Survey also measured the quake at magnitude 5.9. The quake was also felt in Tocopilla, the city hardest hit by a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that rocked the region on Nov. 14, killing two people and causing extensive damage.
