Chile Earthquake Generates Cross-Pacific Tsunami

By ERIC TALMADGE
Associated Press Writer
TOKYO February 27, 2010 (AP)

People in Hawaii were urgently told to protect lives and property from a tsunami crossing the Pacific as fast as a jetliner after a devastating earthquake in Chile.

Tsunami waves were likely to hit Asian, Australian and New Zealand shores within 24 hours of the earthquake, which struck early Saturday on Chile's coast. the rest

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