This was reported by the Altai-Sayan branch of the United Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

According to the operational processing, the epicenter of the recorded earthquake had coordinates 17. 35 degrees south latitude and 69 degrees. 22 degrees west longitude. Epicenter was located 132 km northeast of the Chilean city of Tacna.

The first tremors of the globe were fixed from 18:26 Moscow time.

According to the intensity of concussions in the epicenter, seismic event is estimated as "intense". Information on victims and dead, yet.

As previously reported in "URA-Inform", in the southeast of Iran, there was an earthquake. Its magnitude was 5.9 points on the Richter scale. The tremors were fixed at 04. 32 on Kiev time in 65 kilometers to the northeast from the city of Kerman.