August 19, 2016 04:26 pm | Updated 04:27 pm IST - BERLIN:
A German earthquake monitoring centre says that a 7.3 magnitude quake has occurred in the South Atlantic on Friday.
The Potsdam-based German Research Centre for Geosciences, or GFZ, says the quake struck the South Georgia Island Region at a depth of about 10 kilometres (6.2 miles).
The site is about 1,500 miles east of the southern tip of Argentina.
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