TWO strong earthquakes 40 minutes apart have rocked the remote South Orkney Islands in Antarctica.
Experts from the US Geological Survey say the epicentre of the first, a magnitude 6.5 temblor, was at a depth of 10km, some 464km west of Coronation Island, but no destructive tsunami was created.
The quake occurred just after midnight this morning (AEDT), with the aftershock striking about 40 minutes later measuring at 6.2.
The South Orkney Islands form a remote archipelago in the Southern Ocean to the northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
