Power blackout hits Chile two weeks after quake

Some Chileans took the power outage in stride.

"To be honest, I'm not scared," said 24-year-old mechanic Francisco Silva. "They say it was a power cut because the earthquake left the electricity lines weakened."

"I am calm, because I think the government can solve the problems," he added. "We have no option but to trust in it."

(Additional reporting by Alonso Soto, Fabian Cambero and Alejandro Lifschitz; Writing by Fiona Ortiz; editing by Simon Gardner and Stacey Joyce)