Chile's army has been deployed to the northern city of Iquique after some 300 inmates escaped from a women's jail following an 8.2-magnitude earthquake.
More than 100 prisoners have returned, many of them voluntarily, since fleeing the jail in the chaos that followed Tuesday evening's quake.
Chile's President Michelle Bachelet, in Iquique to assess the damage, has declared Arica and Parinacota region and Tarapaca region disaster areas.
There have been six reported deaths.More than 2,000 homes were damaged in Alto Hospicio, a town near Iquique. Fires destroyed some businesses in the area and fishermen found their boats sunken and damaged in Iquique harbour.
Some 40,000 people in Tarapaca remain without power, said Ricardo Toro of Chile's National Emergency Office (Onemi).
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