There is no tsunami threat to the Philippines following the magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck at the Southern Drake Passage on Friday morning, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of Honolulu says there is no tsunami threat following an 8.0-magnitude earthquake in the Drake Passage. The earthquake struck at about 4 :35 p.m. at a depth of 10 kilometers in the Drake Passage—a body of water located between the southern tip of South America and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.

A earthquake hit the Drake Passage region on Thursday. The National Tsunami Warning Center addressed tsunami concerns in the Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands region.

A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit the Drake Passage, prompting Chile's Navy to issue a tsunami warning. Initially recorded at magnitude 8, the quake was revised by the USGS. It occurred southeast of Ushuaia,

The U.S. Geological Survey recorded an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.0, later downgraded to 7.5, that occurred near the Drake Passage, with a depth of about 6.7 miles,