The Chilean authorities called on Friday to evacuate the coast of the Magallanes region, in the far south of the country, after having expressed a tsunami alert due to a powerful earthquake at sea.
The earthquake was recorded at 9:58 a.m. locals ten kilometers deep at sea, 218 km south of the town of Puerto Williams and approximately 2,500 km south of Santiago, according to the national seismological center, dependent on the University of Chile.
He assessed it to a magnitude of 7.5 while the American Institute of Geophysics (USGS) reported a magnitude of 7.4.
“We call to evacuate the seaside throughout the Magallanes region,” wrote President Gabriel Boric on his X account, asking the inhabitants to follow the authorities’ recommendations.
-The appeal has evacuated was issued by the national prevention and response to disasters and the hydrographic and oceanographic service of the Chile Navy, before being relayed by the President.
Chile is one of the countries that has recorded the most earthquakes in the world. On its territory converge three tectonic plates: the Nazca plate, the South American plate and the Antarctic plate.
In 1960, the city of Valdivia (south) had been devastated by an earthquake of magnitude 9.5, considered to be the most powerful ever recorded, which killed 9,500 people.
In 2010, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake, followed by a tsunami, caused more than 520 dead.
