2019 in Chile
Incumbents
Events
- January 19 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Tongoy, Coquimbo Region in Chile, causing two deaths and as many as 200,000 people left without power.[1] Despite its moderate magnitude, since it was an intraplate earthquake, it caused some serious damage in La Serena and nearby cities.
- October 21 – Eye injury in the 2019–2020 Chilean protests: a record of twenty patients with eye injury arrive at Hospital del Salvador, of these ten arrive in a single hour.[2]
Deaths
- 8 August – Manfred Max-Neef
References
- "2 Killed As Magnitude-6.7 Earthquake Strikes Chile". January 20, 2019. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
- "Médicos de la U. de Chile analizan 182 casos de heridos en los ojos: 24 personas presentaron "estallido ocular"". 24horas.cl (in Spanish). TVN. January 2, 2020. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
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