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Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera nonstop his tour of earthquake affected areas on Thursday with a little stop in the tsunami-ravaged town of Constitucion.

The recently-inaugurated leader left heads-of-state who had go to his swearing in ceremony only with his wife at a celebratory lunch so he can fit in a lightning-stop to Arancagua, the magnitude of a 6.9 aftershock on Thursday that had rattled the day’s official activities.

That delayed his appearance at Constitucion, where a crowd stayed outside the city’s deeply-damaged main church for him to reach. Earlier in the day, residents had scrambled for the hills in Constitucion after the navy issued a tsunami warning for the mainland, but it was later called off. Pinera agreed that his administration would work about the clock to restore.

Pinera’s election pledges to boost economic growth to 6% a year & create a million jobs have been threatened by the task of the post-quake reconstruction effort.