Earthquake Information

August 12, 2021 (18:32:54 UTC)

Quake Location

Magnitude 7.5 South Sandwich Islands

A magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurred at a depth of 63.3 km (39.3 miles) in the South Sandwich Islands, an uninhabited British territory off the coast of Argentina in the southern Atlantic Ocean.

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