Magnitude 7.5 quake shakes off South American tip

[Starmix]

According to the report, a powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck in the Drake Passage, located between the southern tip of South America and Antarctica, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre reported Friday.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake, initially measured at magnitude 8, was later revised to 7.5. It struck at a shallow depth of 11 kilometers.

According to the USGS, the epicenter was more than 700 kilometers southeast of Ushuaia, Argentina, a city of about 57,000 residents.

Following the tremor, Chile’s Navy Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service issued a tsunami warning for its Antarctic territory.

Source: PNA

 

[magnus2022]

Earthquakes after earthquake! We are sitting on time bomb. The most unfortunate is that we can't be able to proffer solutions to the quakes! I doubt if scientists knows what causes such quakes!

 

[Starmix]

Mother Nature is very angry this time. It sends different kinds of calamities, Humans must protect Mother Nature for what humans do to nature go back to them.