About 5,000 homes in Chile's capital, Santiago, were destroyed by the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit the central coast last month, its mayor said Wednesday. 'The (capital) metro area's assessment has been a bit misleading because we do have more damage than what at first was believed to be the case,' Mayor Fernando Echeverria told reporters. The temblor left 181 capital schools unusable, and shut down one hospital, he added. The 8.8-magnitude quake, one of the strongest ever recorded, struck February 27 and also unleashed a deadly tsunami that ravaged several towns on the central coast. The quake and tsunami killed some 497 people, while hundreds remain missing. Two million were left homeless mainly in central and southern coastal areas. 