{"id":29410,"date":"2025-08-22T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=29410"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:29:10","slug":"7-5-magnitude-earthquake-in-the-chilean-antarctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/7-5-magnitude-earthquake-in-the-chilean-antarctic\/","title":{"rendered":"7.5 magnitude earthquake in the Chilean Antarctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A 7.5 magnitude earthquake rattled the Chilean Antarctic region and the southern Drake Passage on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said.<\/p>\n<p>There was no threat of a tsunami from the quake, which took place at 10:16 pm (0216 GMT Friday), at a depth of 6.7 miles (10.8 kilometers), the survey said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Drake Passage is a turbulent, 500-mile-wide strait between South America and Antarctica, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.<\/p>\n<p>The National Tsunami Warning Center confirmed that a tsunami was not expected.<\/p>\n<p>Chile&#8217;s national disaster response service (Senapred) described the earthquake as &#8220;medium intensity&#8221; and said a &#8220;precautionary alert&#8221; had been issued for the Antarctic territory.<\/p>\n<p>A source from the Chilean interior ministry said &#8220;there is no danger for the Magallanes region,&#8221; the southernmost inhabited area of the South American continent.<\/p>\n<p>The state of precaution &#8220;requires abandoning beach areas&#8221; and &#8220;rocky shores&#8221; of the national Antarctic territory, according to Senapred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 7.5 magnitude earthquake rattled the Chilean Antarctic region and the southern Drake Passage on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said. There was no threat of a tsunami from the quake, which took place at 10:16 pm (0216 GMT Friday), at a depth of 6.7 miles (10.8 kilometers), the survey said in a statement. Drake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29412,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29410\/revisions\/29412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}