Major earthquake: M7.5 quake has struck near Drake Passage

A major earthquake with magnitude 7.5 (ml/mb) was reported Drake Passage (0 miles) on Friday. The temblor was detected at 02:16:19 / 2:16 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Drake Passage (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.843 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000r2xq. Ids that are associated to the event: pt25234000, us6000r2xq. Exact location, longitude -61.8206° West, latitude -60.1859° South, depth = 10.843 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/08/25 / 2025-08-22 02:16:19 / August 22, 2025 @ 2:16 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 15 major earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Drake Passage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	7.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-61.8206° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-60.1859° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.843 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Drake Passage	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-22 02:16:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-22 02:33:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	1	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	865	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	71	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.72	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	67	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000r2xq	Id of event.
Event Code	6000r2xq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt25234000,us6000r2xq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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