La Earthquake

WASHINGTON –  This earthquake is of special case and because of strong magnitude of about 6 occurred Monday off the coast of central Chile, more than 100 km north of Concepcion and 10 km deep, has announced the American Institute of Geophysics (USGS).

No tsunami warning has been launched yet.

Time notice was about at 08H08 local time (11:08 GMT). Its epicenter was located 108 km north of Concepcion and 357 km south-west of the capital Santiago.

To measure the power of an earthquake, the USGS uses the “moment magnitude (Mw). On this scale open, an earthquake reaching a magnitude of at least 6 is considered strong.

This earthquake came two weeks after the February 27 earthquake in Chile, a magnitude of 8.8, which has nearly 500 officially identified dead and hundreds missing.