Subject: [SIR-Mail] No.927: IQQE (Iquique, Chile) station status
From: Laura Sanchez <sanchez@dgfi.badw.de>

This is a copy of [IGSSTATION-5739]  IQQE (Iquique, Chile) station status

Author: Eric Kendrick

Communications with station IQQE have been lost since the recent 
earthquake near Iquique.
We now have confirmation that the station was not significantly damaged 
by the earthquake
and tsunami, however utility poles bringing electricity to the station 
are down. We hope the station
has been running on backup battery power. A team from Instituto 
Geografico Militar
will be flying to Iquique on Monday to download data and make repairs. 
Data will be sent to
SOPAC as soon as we have more.


Regards,
Eric Kendrick