Chile has explained a state of emergency after a national rapid raping has left 19 million people in the dark.
A curfew has been enforced in a large part of the country, also in the capital Santiago, until 6 am on Wednesday morning.
The Blackout, who left 98 percent of the population without electricity, ensured that Chaos became traffic chaos while street lamps got dark while the metro trains stopped working.
Tarn -long passengers also had to be saved from a roller coaster that raised in the air.
The Santiago metro, which transports millions of passengers, was closed and passengers were evacuated from stuck trains.
“There is nothing. There is no money. No money. Nothing, “said Jose Luis Orlandini, who was eating in the center of Santiago when the malfunction struck.
The agency that was in charge of Chile's Power Grid, said that the power failure was caused by a decoupling in the transmission system in the Norte Chico region.
The Ministry of the Interior said it uses the armed forces throughout the country to maintain order.
“We will have a curfew at night until six in the morning,” the Interior Minister Carolina Toha added in a press conference on Tuesday evening.
People leave the amphitheater of the International Song Festival after the suspension of the performance during a blackout in Vina del Mar, Chile
People are in a restaurant in Santiago, the capital of Chile, which was hit by the national power outages on Tuesday afternoon
The Black -Out found the regions of North -Aarica and Parinacota to the South Los Lagos region.
It was first reported at 3.15 pm local time in different parts of the country and left around 98.5 percent of the population without electricity.
At least 582,430 people were without electricity around the Santiago Metropolitan region, said the chief inspector of electricity and fuels.
Civil servants also said that 328,488 customers in Los Lagos and another 161,843 inhabitants in Los RÃos also had no power.
According to local broadcasters, various cities reported the return of power at 5 p.m. local time.
Tohá announced that an emergency meeting was planned with the Risk Management Committees disaster.
'Given the power outage that takes place between the regions of Arica and Parinacota and Los Lagos, I have called for an immediate meeting of the National #Cogrid [Disaster Risk Management Committees]Where we will take measures to tackle the emergency situation and to work on repairing the service, “she wrote in a message about X.
During a press conference, Tohá added that residents had to be patient while the government worked to restore power.
“I call for calmness to understand that it is a failure in the system, that we are not the purpose of an attack, that the service must be restored quickly,” she said.
Police officers lead the traffic during a blackout in Vina del Mar, Chile
People are outside of buildings After a large power outage, huge parts of Chile hit Tuesday
A man walks in a parking garage during a power outage, in Santiago, Chile on Tuesday
People leave the amphitheater of the International Song Festival after the suspension of the performance during a blackout in Vina del Mar, Chile
The metrodienst in the capital, Santiago, where millions of passengers are served, was closed at 3.20 pm.
The malfunction also ensured that street lights stop working and led to chaos on the roads, including a crash between a mini bus and a car that was injured in four people in Santiago.
The lack of train service also brought residents to their houses, because buses were filled into a capacity.
People reported that taxis and Uber had increased their prices as a result of the national emergency situation.
Transport Minister Juan Carlos Múñoz said that at least 4,500 diesel-powered Wednesday morning would be on the road in Santiago if the electricity was not restored.
Santiago's Arturo Merino BenÃtez International Airport, the largest in the country, was normally operated on.
Latam Airlines said in a statement “that because of the interruption of the power supply in a large part of Chile, some of our flights can be influenced.” It urged passengers to check their flight status online.
The power failure was first reported at 3:15 pm local time in different parts of the country and left behind approximately 98.5 percent of the population without electricity
Employees of the local electricity company inspect the electricity pipes during a blackout in the Chilean resort city Viña del Mar
Pedestrians rest on the lawn outside La Moneda Palace in Santiago, while the Chilean capital dealt with the consequences of the power outage of Tuesday
Trainstation staff provides information to customers in Viña del Mar, who was left in the dark after Tuesday's Black -out of Tuesday
Residents pressed the flatbed of a pick -up to move in Santiago, the capital of Chile
Escondida, the world's largest copper mine, was without electricity, a source told Reuters.
Antophagasta, a copper mining group, said that his mines served with a back -up capital engineer.
The Blackout left several passengers on a roller coaster while the ride was about to descend through the traces of Fantasilandia, an amusement park in Santiago.
The management of the park told CNN Chile that backup generators were used to restore the service and remove the customers.
