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Strong 6.2-magnitude quake shakes Chile: officials

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 10 2018 08:22 PM
A strong 6.2 magnitude earthquake shook the South American nation of Chile on Tuesday but there was no tsunami alert and no reports of injuries, preliminary reports from officials said.
The United States Geological Survey also reported the quake as measuring 6.2.
Chile's National Seismological Center said the quake struck at 7:19 am (1019 GMT), 35 kilometers (21 miles) north of Punitaqui at a depth of 75.8 kilometers.
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Castriciones reappointed as acting DAR secretary

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 11 2018 07:14 PM
President Rodrigo Duterte has reappointed lawyer John Castriciones as acting Agrarian Reform secretary.
Duterte issued the ad interim appointment on March 22, a day after the Commission on Appointments (CA) deferred action on Castriciones' appointment.
The document, however, was only released to the media Wednesday.
Castriciones was first appointed to the Department of Agrarian Reform in December following the CA's rejection of Duterte’s first appointee to the post, activist Rafael Mariano, last September. - with a report from Dexter Ganibe, ABS-CBN News
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