{"id":47636,"date":"2025-05-02T19:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=47636"},"modified":"2025-05-02T19:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:44:20","slug":"earthquake-strikes-off-chiles-southern-coast-sparking-tsunami-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/earthquake-strikes-off-chiles-southern-coast-sparking-tsunami-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake Strikes off Chile\u2019s Southern Coast, Sparking Tsunami Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Drake Passage between Cape Horn and Antarctica at a depth of just 10 km (6 miles) on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said.<\/p>\n<p>Chile&#8217;s SENAPRED disaster agency said a coastal area of Magallanes region in the southern tip of the country should be evacuated due to the risk of a tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re calling to evacuate the coast in the whole region of Magallanes,&#8221; President Gabriel Boric said on X, adding that all the states resources would be made available to deal with any impact.<\/p>\n<p>Videos on social media showed people calmly evacuating as sirens blared in the background. Chile&#8217;s Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (SHOA) estimated that waves will reach bases in Antarctica and cities in Chile&#8217;s extreme south in the coming hours.<\/p>\n<p>Chile&#8217;s Antarctic institute (INAHC) told Reuters that bases were being evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>SENAPRED said it was establishing a state of precaution, an alert associated with minor tsunamis. NOAA said that waves from 0.3 to 1 meter were expected in Antarctica and waves measuring 1 meter to 3 meters were expected in Chile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Drake Passage between Cape Horn and Antarctica at a depth of just 10 km (6 miles) on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said. Chile&#8217;s SENAPRED disaster agency said a coastal area of Magallanes region in the southern tip of the country should be evacuated due to the risk of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47637,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47636\/revisions\/47637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}