A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.9 occurred in Antarctica near the Chilean base Eduardo Frei, which was put on evacuation alert for tsunami risk.
The earthquake was recorded at 20:36 local time (00:36 in Italy) with hypocenter about 15 kilometers deep and epicenter about 210 km east of the Chilean base.
The National Emergency Office of the Chilean Interior Ministry (Onemi) has asked to "leave the coast of the Antarctic territory".
"We are fine, we did not feel the earthquake. We only noticed it because friends from Italy sent us sms to get news", Angelo Domesi, technician of the Department of Earth System Sciences and Technologies for environment of the CNR located in the Italian-French scientific station Concordia, in Antarctica, after the earthquake of magnitude 6.9 that occurred near the Chilean base Eduardo Frei. "We are very far away, 3,000 km from them and 1,200 km from the coast. Our base is in the Antarctic plateau," explained Domesi. "the earthquake was still recorded with our Ingv instrumentation which is part of a global network".
