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The 1st tremor larger than magnitude 5.0 was at 06:34 UTC on Feb 27,2010 measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale. It lasted about 3 minutes.

It has suffered many aftershocks 6 larger than mag 6.0. It is still happening as of Feb 29th, 2010 @ 13:57 UTC.

It also spawned a secondary earthquake of 6.3 in Argentina with an aftershock of 6.1.

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