A tsunami threat has been issued in Chile after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Drake Passage on Friday.
This is a body of water located between the southern tip of South America and Antarctica.
The US Geological Survey detected the strong quake at 4:29pm ET at a depth of nine miles. The tsunami threat was issued about 19 minutes after.
The epicenter was located 135 miles south of Puerto Williams on the north coast of Navarino Island, at the southern tip of South America in the Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region of Chile.
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Chile is under a tsunami threat after a 7.8 earthquake hit off the coast near Drake’s Passage
