Huge quake off Chile

David Stout and David Winograd have a Time article about an earthquake in Chile:

At least five people died and three were injured after an 8.2-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Chile sparked tsunami warnings along Peru and Ecuador and throughout the Pacific as far as Hawai'i, officials said, sending waves crashing into coastal towns in the country, prompting evacuations across Latin America’s Pacific coast.
During a news conference, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet declared the Arica, Parinacota, and Tarapacá regions as disaster zones, but reported that the evacuation of communities along the country’s Pacific coast was proceeding in an orderly fashion.
Officials rescinded their initial blanket warnings late on Tuesday, after fears of a potential tsunami had sparked alerts throughout countries across the Pacific coastline and put officials thousands of miles away in Hawai'i on standby. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center had initially extended tsunami warnings to five countries following the quake, but as of late Tuesday night, only Chile and Peru remained on the list.
Warnings of a tsunami began circulating after the 8.2-magnitude earthquake struck sixty miles off the port city of Iquique in Chile’s northern mining region. The US Geological Survey recorded the earthquake at 8:46 p.m. local time some twelve miles below the seabed. Waves as high as seven feet reportedly hit Iquique in the quake’s wake.
Chile’s Interior Minister Rodrigo Peñailillo said a tsunami warning would remain in place in the country for the next six hours. Peñailillo said three hundred inmates had escaped from a women’s prison in Iquique after the facility was damaged. Security officials were later deployed to the city and at least 26 of the inmates had been recaptured.
As areas in coastal Chile were evacuated and residents relocated to higher ground, there were early reports that landslides were blocking roads and making it harder for residents to evacuate. However, there were no reports of major damage or serious injuries caused by the quake.
The Iquique area of Chile experienced numerous tremors last month, following a relatively powerful 6.7-magnitude quake that hit on 16 March 2014, heightening fears that a larger earthquake might strike, Reuters reports.
Chile was devastated by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami in 2010. 

Rico says the quake's bad enough, but the tsunami are the bitch, as they can get you thousands of miles away...