According to reports, Chilean authorities have apologized for spreading panic with a false tsunami warning.
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook Antarctica at 8:36 p.m. local time, northeast of a Chilean scientific base.
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Chile’s Interior Ministry has issued a warning for the evacuation of Antarctica’s coastal regions due to a tsunami risk, but the message has also reached mobile phones across Chile, and according to Reuters, people are leaving coastal areas. .
The ministry then said the message was sent incorrectly.
“We want to give the people peace of mind and tell them that it is not necessary to evacuate the entire national territory, just the Antarctic base,” Miguel Ortiz of the Ministry’s National Emergency Office said at a news conference.
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The agency regrets that the message caused so much panic and inconvenience.
According to Chilean mining regulator Sernageomin, 80 people were evacuated after the earthquake from the main base of Antarctica and three more people from three other bases, according to the New Strait Times.
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Residents of the Chilean coastal towns of La Serena and Valparaiso began leaving their homes after receiving the cellphone alert. After learning that the warning was a mistake, another earthquake struck the border region of Chile and Argentina.
No damage was reported to any earthquake.