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[March 15, 2010]

Blackout affects most of Chile

Santiago, Mar 15, 2010 (EFE via COMTEX) -- An outage in a 500 KW transformer in the Central Interconnected System knocked out power to most of Chile, Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter said.

The blackout started at 8:40 p.m. on Sunday and affected an area stretching from Taltal, a city in northern Chile, to Chiloe Island, some 2,500 kilometers (1,553 miles) away in the southern part of the country.

"This is a power outage, it has nothing to do with an earthquake or any other emergency situation," Hinzpeter said.

Chile was hit by a magnitude-8.8 earthquake on Feb. 27 that caused at least $30 billion in losses.

The South American country has been hit by a series of powerful aftershocks since last month's quake, which left some 500 people dead and 2 million others injured or displaced.



An outage at one of the two transformers at the Cahrrua substation in Temuco, a city located 675 kilometers (nearly 420 miles) south of Santiago, caused the blackout, a spokesman for the Central Interconnected System told Radio Cooperativa.

The substation, which supplies electricity to the Metropolitan Region, has only two transformers, and the second one shut down to avoid overloading the system, the utility spokesman said.


The shutdown of the substation took down the rest of the system.

Utility officials "suspect" that last month's earthquake may have caused damage to the grid that led to the blackout, the Central Interconnected System spokesman said. EFE mf/hv

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