Powerful earthquake in Chile of magnitude 6.2 shakes the Bio Bio region

Chili trembles. Three earthquakes of moderate intensity, which reached a maximum of magnitude 6.2, today shook the Chilean town of Lebu, in the Araucanía region, with no reports of possible victims or damage to infrastructure to date.

The three telluric movements occurred at 11:24 p.m. local time, a few seconds apart, and marked 6.2, then 5.2 and almost a minute later 6.2 according to measurements from the seismological center of the University of Chile.

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The source also indicated that the tsunami alert has not been triggered in the province of Bio Bio, located more than 500 kilometers south of Santiago de Chile.

On November 8, a magnitude 5.3 earthquake shook the north-central area of ​​Chile this morning, without causing casualties or serious damage to infrastructure and homes.

According to the national seismological center (Onemi), the telluric movement occurred at 5:51 local time (9:51 GMT), marked a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter open scale and its epicenter was located 27 kilometers to the east. southwest of the metropolitan region of Santiago.

The earthquake, which occurred at a depth of 79 kilometers, was felt equally strongly in the neighboring regions of Coquimbo, Valparaíso and O’Higgins.

Chili It is located in the southeastern part of the Pacific ring of fire, the most seismic zone in the world, and suffers hundreds of small telluric movements due to the subduction of the Nazca plate under the South American plate.

In 1960, the southern Chilean region of Valdivia suffered the most powerful earthquake recorded in modern times, measuring 9.6 on the open Richter scale, killing 1,655 people.

Source: Elcomercio

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