Seismologists recorded a magnitude 5.8 earthquake off the Chilean coat on Sunday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center said, Trend reports citing TASS.
The epicenter was located 147 km north-west of the city of La Serena (Coquimbo region) in Chile, where about 154,000 people live. The epicenter was located at a depth of 20 km.
Information about the victims, destruction and the threat of a tsunami was not received.