translated from Spanish: Magnitude 6.6 earthquake shook central and southern Chile

A 6.6 magnitude earthquake shook eight regions of central and southern Chile on Sunday, between the Metropolitan region and Los Lagos, with no reported personal misfortune or property damage.
The teluric movement was recorded at 12:57 local time and its epicenter was located 70 km west of Constitución, Maule region, according to the National Seismological Center. The hypocenter, meanwhile, was located 31.5 kilometers deep.

Among many, one user shared the record of the earthquake from Santiago airport. (Video via: @LligoRock)
The National Emergency Office (Onemi), for its part, detailed that according to the international scale of Mercalli, which runs from one to twelve, the earthquake was perceived with a degree six intensity in the towns of Cauquenes and Longaví, both in the Maule region.
In other locations in the eight affected regions (Metropolitan, O’Higgins, Maule, Euble, Biobío, La Araucanía, Los Ríos and Los Lagos) the tremor was perceived with Mercalli scale intensities of between two and five degrees.

And so it was lived in Penco according to the user @lindsayreginaf
The Chilean Navy Hydrographic and OceanIc Service (SHOA) indicated that the characteristics of the earthquake do not qualify for a tsunami off the coast of Chile.
The highest-intensity tremor in Chile in 2019 was magnitude 6.7 on January 19 on the country’s central coast, from the Atacama region to O’Higgins.

Original source in Spanish

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