SANTIAGO (Reuters) -A tsunami threat was issued after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Drake Passage, a stretch of water located between the southern tip of South America and Antarctica, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said on Friday.
The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), the United States Geological Survey said.
Chile’s SHOA marine authority issued a precautionary tsunami alert for the country’s Antarctic territory and authorities asked people to evacuate the beaches.
(Reporting by Fabian Cambero in Santiago and Chandni Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by Nia Williams)
