A tsunami warning has been issued after a powerful earthquake hit southern Chile, Sputnik reported.
A 7.6-magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of Chile, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said Sunday.
The US Geological Survey (USGS), meanwhile, said that the earthquake's magnitude was 7.7 on the Richter scale. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning for areas within 1,000 kilometers of the epicenter of the earthquake.
"The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center [PTWC] has issued a tsunami threat message for other parts of the Pacific located closer to the earthquake. However… based on all available data there is no tsunami threat to Hawaii," the PTWC said in a statement. The tremors were recorded at 11:22 a.m. local time, the seismologists stated. The quake struck near the coast of Los Lagos, 40 kilometers southwest of Puerto Quellon in Chile, its depth is some 33 kilometers
Earlier in the day, a 5.4-magnitude quake struck northern Chile near the border with Bolivia.