One million people had to leave their homes and at least 11 people died when the 8.3-magnitude quake hit on Wednesday night.
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The quake was so powerful that its effects have been felt by people as far away as Buenos Aires in Argentina, about 1,400km from the epicentre.
A Tsunami Advisory for Hawaii was canceled Thursday after officials said wave levels dropped enough that conditions would not be a threat to the state.
The natural disaster had a shallow depth of 11km and hit at 7.54pm (22:54 GMT), with the epicenter located about 500 km north of the capital Santiago, seismologists at the University of Chile said.
People embrace amid the destruction left behind by an earthquake-triggered tsunami in Concon, Chile, Thursday, September 17, 2015.
Eturbonews reported that the temblor, which caused buildings to sway and people to take refuge in the streets, was originally rated 7.9 but the US Geological Survey initially quickly revised the reading to a whopping 8.3-which is tremendous.
The strongest quake ever recorded happened in Chile: a magnitude-9.5 tremor in 1960 that killed more than 5,000 people.
The USA government’s National Tsunami Warning Center (NTWC) also issued a tsunami advisory for Southern California, including coastal areas of the counties of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego. King Cove, Alaska, reported water heights of 0.6 foot late Tuesday morning, the tsunami warning center said.
If tsunami waves impact Hawaii, the estimated earliest arrival time would be 3:06 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time (0906 ET) on Thursday, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. It’s also caused tsunami waves far across the Pacific.
Parents and LDS bishops of missionaries serving in the Chile Santiago North Mission received an e-mail stating that all missionaries were safe. The navy said the northern port city of Coquimbo had been hit by waves as tall as 15 feet, and fishing vessels washed up onto the streets.
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At least five people were killed and 10 hurt in Chile, while a million were evacuated and one person went missing.
