Shockwaves reached as far as Chile after the quake was recorded at 8.29pm on Friday.
22:52, 10 Oct 2025Updated 22:53, 10 Oct 2025
The earthquake struck in the Drake Passage off the coast of Antarctica(Image: Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
A 7.6-magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Antarctica in the famous Drake Passage.
Shockwaves reached as far as Chile after the quake was recorded at 8.29pm on Friday.
The GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences have said that the epicentre had a depth of 10km (6.2 miles).
As reported by the Mirror, a map shows where the earthquake struck at this evening, approximately 153 miles off the coast of Antarctica.
The Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy (SHOA) have issued a tsunami warning for the southern coasts of Chile following the earthquake.
According to the US Tsunami Warning System, tsunami waves are “possible for coasts located within 1000km of the earthquake epicentre” in the Drake Passage.
The earthquake was reportedly felt in South America
The first wave is expected to reach Puerto Williams in Chile at 10.36am on Saturday, October 11 and Punta Arenas at 6.49pm the same day.
A message from the U.S. National Tsunami Warning Centre read: “Earthquakes of this size are known to generate tsunamis dangerous to shorelines near the source.”
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The Drake Passage stretches 500 miles between South America’s Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica, and is known as the “roughest sea in the world”.
It is named after the 16th-century English explorer and privateer Sir Francis Drake, though he never actually crossed the water.