Great Earthquakes In Diverse Places
Earthquake hits Peruvian Amazons
September 25, 2010, 10:35am
LIMA (Xinhua) - An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale hit on
Friday the Peruvian Amazons region of Ucayali, some 550 kilometers east
of Lima, without no immediate reports of damage or injury.
The earthquake occurred at 2:01 p.m. local time (1902 GMT), 43
kilometers northeast of Pucallpa city with a depth of 146 kilometers,
Peru's Geophysics Institute (IGP) said.
The IGP added that it also monitored a smaller earthquake in the nearby
departments of Junin and Huanuco.
Meanwhile, Peru's Civil Protection National Institute (Indeci) said
that so far there have been no reports of injury or property damage.
This was the second earthquake registered in Peru in the last 36 hours.
An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 hit the Tambo de Mora locality in
Chincha province in the early morning on Thursday, some 150 kilometers
south of Lima.
Peru sits on the so-called Fire Belt of the Pacific. Each year it
registers more than 1,200 earthquakes on average, 10 percent of which
are above magnitude 5.