Earthquake Information

December 11, 2018 (02:26:32 UTC)

Quake Location

Magnitude 7.1 South Sandwich Islands

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred at a depth of 164.7 km (102 miles) in the South Sandwich Islands, an uninhabited British territory off the coast of Argentina in the southern Atlantic Ocean.

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