I visited the UK late last year and can confirm that your card readers can still read the magnetic stripes on our outdated American credit cards if they absolutely have to.
Unfortunately both types die with exposure to magnetic fields - I accidentally too mine into an MRI scanner. This may not Oruro at a lower field strength with the chip type however.
Wow. That was a bad one, sorry, and I can't edit it.
It was supposed to say: Unfortunately both types die with exposure to magnetic fields - I accidentally took mine into an MRI scanner. This may not occur at a lower field strength with the chip-type card however.