Powerful earthquake rocks Los Lagos region, Chile
Magnitude: 7.7Mw [emsc]
Region: ISLA CHILOE, LOS LAGOS, CHILE
Location: 43.36ºS, 73.80ºW
Depth: 47km
Date time: 2016-12-25 14:22:28.2 UTC
Distances:
- 1,133 km S of Santiago, Chile / pop: 4,838,000
- 221 km S of Puerto Montt, Chile / pop: 161,000
- 31 km SW of Puerto Quellón, Chile / pop: 21,900
...PTWC TSUNAMI THREAT MESSAGE...
EVALUATION
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* AN EARTHQUAKE WITH A PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE OF 7.7 OCCURRED IN
SOUTHERN CHILE AT 1422 UTC ON SUNDAY DECEMBER 25 2016.
* BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA... HAZARDOUS TSUNAMI WAVES ARE FORECAST FOR SOME COASTS.
TSUNAMI THREAT FORECAST...UPDATED
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* TSUNAMI WAVES REACHING 1 TO 3 METERS ABOVE THE TIDE LEVEL ARE
POSSIBLE ALONG SOME COASTS OF
CHILE.
ESTIMATED TIMES OF ARRIVAL -------------------------- * ESTIMATED TIMES OF ARRIVAL -ETA- OF THE INITIAL TSUNAMI WAVE FOR PLACES WITHIN THREATENED REGIONS ARE GIVEN BELOW. ACTUAL ARRIVAL TIMES MAY DIFFER AND THE INITIAL WAVE MAY NOT BE THE LARGEST. A TSUNAMI IS A SERIES OF WAVES AND THE TIME BETWEEN WAVES CAN BE FIVE MINUTES TO ONE HOUR. LOCATION REGION COORDINATES ETA(UTC) ------------------------------------------------------------ CORRAL CHILE 39.8S 73.5W 1522 12/25 GOLFO DE PENAS CHILE 47.1S 74.9W 1531 12/25 TALCAHUANO CHILE 36.7S 73.1W 1548 12/25 PUERTO MONTT CHILE 41.5S 73.0W 1701 12/25
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