A earthquake magnitude 6.2 on the Richter scale, at 8:48 p.m. local time on Wednesday, it shook the area of central and northern Chile, with no evidence of casualties or serious property damagereported the National Seismological Center of the University of Chile. The agency indicated that the epicenter was registered 11 kilometers south-east of Tongoy, about 430 kilometers north of the capital, on the Chilean coast. Likewise, its hypocenter occurred at a depth of 45 kilometers.
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The National Disaster Prevention and Response Service (Senapred) indicated that the movement was perceived between the Atacama regions, in the north of the country, and the Metropolitan region, where Santiago, the capital, is located, and described it as a medium-intensity earthquake.
As reported by the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Navy (SHOA), the telluric movement did not meet the conditions to generate a tsunami on the country’s coasts.