Earthquake of magnitude 5.3 rocked Tarapaca, region in northern Chile on Wednesday

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake rocked Tarapaca, a region in northern Chile yesterday. According to the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, the earthquake's focus was at a depth of 118 kilometers and was located 37 km north-east of Calama



city. 

The Chilean Navy's Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service said that the earthquake's characteristics did not meet the necessary conditions to generate a tsunami on the Chilean coast.