{"id":195121,"date":"2025-10-12T14:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195121\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T14:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:48:16","slug":"huge-7-6-magnitude-earthquake-felt-off-coast-of-antarctica-in-famous-drake-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195121\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge 7.6 magnitude earthquake felt off coast of\u00a0Antarctica\u00a0in famous Drake Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shockwaves reached as far as Chile after the quake was recorded at 8.29pm on Friday.<\/p>\n

22:52, 10 Oct 2025Updated 22:53, 10 Oct 2025<\/p>\n

\"TheThe earthquake struck in the Drake Passage off the coast of Antarctica(Image: Universal Images Group via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake<\/a> has struck off the coast of Antarctica in the famous Drake Passage.<\/p>\n

Shockwaves reached as far as Chile after the quake<\/a> was recorded at 8.29pm on Friday.<\/p>\n

The GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences have said that the epicentre had a depth of 10km (6.2 miles).<\/p>\n

As reported by the Mirror<\/a>, a map shows where the earthquake struck at this evening, approximately 153 miles off the coast of Antarctica.<\/p>\n

The Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy (SHOA) have issued a tsunami warning<\/a> for the southern coasts of Chile following the earthquake.<\/p>\n

According to the US Tsunami Warning System, tsunami waves are “possible for coasts located within 1000km of the earthquake epicentre” in the Drake Passage.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe earthquake was reportedly felt in South America<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

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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”.<\/p>\n

It is named after the 16th-century English explorer and privateer Sir Francis Drake, though he never actually crossed the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shockwaves reached as far as Chile after the quake was recorded at 8.29pm on Friday. 22:52, 10 Oct…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,7081,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-195121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-natural-disasters","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}