India, Aug. 22 -- A strong earthquake struck the Drake Passage region on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), which downgraded the intensity of the quake from Magnitude 8 to 7.5.

The US tsunami warning system did not issue any alert after the Drake Passage earthquake.

The earthquake struck at a depth of 10.8 kilometres, according to the USGS data.

The German Research Center for Geosciences, however, measured the earthquake's magnitude at 7.1.

The Drake Passage, located between South America's Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica, is a deep and wide waterway that connects the southwestern Atlantic and southeastern Pacific Oceans.

The National Center for Seismology (NCS), meanwhile, said the earthquak...