A magnitude 5.3 earthquake shook this morning the central-northern zone of Chilewithout so far casualties or serious damage to infrastructure and housing have been reported.
According to him National Seismological Center (Onemi), the telluric movement occurred at 5:51 local time (9:51 GMT), marked a magnitude 5.3 on the open Richter scale and its epicenter was located 27 kilometers southwest of the metropolitan region of Santiago.
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The earthquake, which occurred at a depth of 79 kilometers, was also felt strongly in the neighboring regions of Coquimbo, Valparaiso and O’Higgins.
Chile is located in the southeastern zone of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the most seismic zone in the world, and suffers hundreds of small telluric movements due to subduction of the Nazca plate under the South American plate.
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In 1960, the southern Chilean region of Valdivia suffered the most powerful earthquake recorded in modern times, magnitude 9.6 on the open Richter scale and killed 1,655 people.
