Chile’s coast has a long history of powerful earthquakes, including the 9.5-magnitude tremor that generated the tsunami that devastated Hilo on May 23, 1960.

Scientists say some uninformed or careless sight-seers have paid with their lives.

According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, the tremor did not generate a Pacific-wide tsunami.

LIke the others, this one failed to generate a Pacific-wide tsunami.

The tremor follows three of 6.5-magnitude or greater that hit the island chain in late February.

The strong tremor was the fourth in five weeks to strike the region.

The earthquake struck at 6:42 p.m. today, Hawaii time.

The tremor occurred in a seismically active island chain stretching from Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula to Japan.

The earthquake that occurred early Friday night, Japan time, caused a three-foot high tsunami on parts of the island of Honshu.

The 6.8 magnitude tremor occurred in one of the world’s most seismically active areas.