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A 6.1-magnitude earthquake killed two people in Argentina on Saturday just hours after a massive quake struck off Chile killing 214 at last count and setting off a tsunami headed for the Pacific basin, including Fiji.
An eight-year-old child and a 70-year-old man were killed when the quake struck in Salta province in Argentina's mountainous northwest, said Carmen Castillo, a doctor at the local hospital.
Castillo said one boy was killed and two other children were injured when masonry fell on them during the quake, which was measured at 6.1 by the Argentine monitoring service INPRES.
The elderly gentleman was killed when part of his home collapsed on top of him.
INPRES said it was a separate local-fault earthquake and not an aftershock from the massive 8.8-magnitude quake that struck Chile some nine hours earlier, killing at least 147 people and sending tsunami waves thousands of miles (kilometers) across the Pacific.
