Tag: U.S. Geological Survey

• Monday, November 25th 2013 - 15:24 UTC

  Magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes in south Atlantic, 314 km SE from Falklands

  

  The U.S. Geological Survey says a powerful magnitude-7.0 earthquake has struck in the South Atlantic, southwest of the Falkland Islands. It says the quake struck at 2:27 a.m. Monday (0627 GMT), about 314 kilometres southeast of the Falklands’ capital, Stanley, and 545 miles east of Ushuaia, Argentina. The depth was a shallow 10 kilometres.