EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 8.3 IN CHILE............TSUNAMI ALERT IN PERU

On 16th at 7:54 pm (local time) earth quake of magnitude 8.3 struck vicinity of Chile's capital Santiago.

Due to this Tsunami warning has been issued in coastal areas of neighboring country Peru and an advisory has been also issued in Hawaii island of the USA .

In Santiago buildings started trembling and millions of afraid people came running out on road and created chaos.

Chilean government announced that due to unstable communication system in affected area the loss of people and property is not yet available.

USGS initially reported magnitude to be 7.9 but sooner it upgraded to 8.3. According to USGS the epicenter is located in coast of pacific ocean 228 km away from north west of Santiago and depth was 5 km.

Chilean government announced that epicenter was 500 km away to the north west of Santiago and depth was 11 km .

Vibrations were also felt in Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina) and is 1400 km away.

Few minutes after the earth quake two powerful after shocks of magnitude 6.0 was experienced.Chilean government issued an advisory to evacuate the pacific coastal area as they are chances of tsunami hitting the coasts by 11 pm.

Chile experiences frequent earth quake as it is located in high risk seismic zone of Pacific rim aka rings of fire. In 1960 Chile experienced earthquake of magnitude 9.5 which resulted loss of 5000 lives in central Chile. Recently in Feb,2010 Chile experienced an earthquake of magnitude 8.8 .

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