[Regnum] A strong earthquake measuring 7.5 has occurred off the coast of Chile. This was reported on May 2 by the country's seismological service and emergency prevention service.
The tremors were recorded at 08:58 (15:58 Moscow time), their epicenter was located in the Pacific Ocean at a distance of 218 km from the city of Puerto Williams on the island of Navarino (Tierra del Fuego archipelago), where 1.6 thousand people live. The earthquake's epicenter was located at a depth of 10 km.
A tsunami warning was also issued due to the tremors, with the country's National Disaster Prevention and Response Service reporting that the coastal area of ​​the Magallanes region in the south of the country would be evacuated because of the tremors.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on April 27, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 was recorded in the south Pacific Ocean near Macquarie Island, which is part of Australia. The epicenter of the tremors was located at a distance of about 1.5 thousand km from the large island of Tasmania. The threat of a tsunami was not declared at that time.
Later that day, a magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck southeastern Turkey, with its epicenter 44 km from Elazig province, home to about 300,000 people.