Earthquakes
Earthquake details
Date & time Oct 9, 2022 16:38:04 UTC
Local time at epicenter Sunday, Oct 9, 2022 at 2:38 pm (GMT -2)
Status Confirmed
Magnitude 6.2
Depth 10.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude 1.3796°S / 23.9039°W
The quake was at a depth of 2 km (1.24 miles), EMSC added.
(Reporting by Jose Joseph in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
Source: Reuters
The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter was 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) below the surface, about 142 kilometers (88 miles) west of Ancud, a town 1,120 kilometers (696 miles) south of the Chilean capital, Santiago.
The National Emergency Office said in a tweet that authorities were checking for any "possible damage to people, alteration of basic services or infrastructure."
The Chilean navy's Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service ruled out the possibility of a tsunami.
Chile sits along the so-called "Ring of Fire" of the Pacific, and it has frequent earthquakes. In 2010, a quake of magnitude 8.8 set off a devastating tsunami that killed 526 people and collapsed more than 220,000 homes in the south-central part of the country.
Source: The Associated Press
6.8 magnitude earthquake shakes Michoacan, Mexico, 1 dead - 2nd major quake for the region in 3 days
The earthquake struck shortly after 1 a.m., just three days after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake shook western and central Mexico, killing two.
The U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday's earthquake, like Monday's, was centered in the western state of Michoacan near the Pacific coast. The epicenter was about 29 miles (46 kilometers) south-southwest of Aguililla, Michoacan, at a depth of about 15 miles (24.1 kilometers).
A strong earthquake measuring 6.0 magnitude on the Richter scale has been registered this evening in the Bering Sea, off the eastern coast of Russia. According to Asismet @Asismet_IF, the tremor occurred at 6:23pm local time. Its epicentre was placed 253km east of Ust'-Kamchatsk, at a depth of 10km.
The location of this quake is said to be along the Bering fault, and related to the Bering Kresla plate boundary shear zone.
There were at least some early reports of damage to buildings from the quake, which hit at 1:05 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geologic Survey, which had initially put the magnitude at 7.5.
It said the quake was centered 37 kilometers (23 miles) southeast of Aquila near the boundary of Colima and Michoacan states and at a depth of 15.1 kilometers (9.4 miles).
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said via Twitter that the secretary of the navy told him one person was killed in the port city of Manzanillo, Colima when a wall at a mall collapsed.
Today's earthquake struck Taiwan's rural Yujing district with a 6.9 magnitude, and a depth of 10 kilometres.
Photos showed buildings collapsed, and about 20 people were evacuated from a train derailed in the area.
Three people were trapped under the rubble of one building, while a fourth person was saved. There were, however, no casualties reported, the Taiwan Railway Administration said.
Comment: Details of the earlier shake: Shallow magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocks Taiwan