A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 struck the remote Drake Passage late Thursday, August 2, 2025 prompting initial tsunami warning in parts of Antarctica before the threat was

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of Honolulu says there is no tsunami threat following an 8.0-magnitude earthquake in the Drake Passage. The earthquake struck at about 4 :35 p.m. at a depth of 10 kilometers in the Drake Passage—a body of water located between the southern tip of South America and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.

A earthquake hit the Drake Passage region on Thursday. The National Tsunami Warning Center addressed tsunami concerns in the Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands region.

A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit the Drake Passage, prompting Chile's Navy to issue a tsunami warning. Initially recorded at magnitude 8, the quake was revised by the USGS. It occurred southeast of Ushuaia,

The U.S. Geological Survey recorded an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.0, later downgraded to 7.5, that occurred near the Drake Passage, with a depth of about 6.7 miles,