“The quake struck at 12:41 a.m. PDT, 47 miles southeast of the village of Lagunas and 57 miles east of the larger town of Yurimaguas. The epicenter was 68 miles below the surface.”
I actually took some time to try to understand this, and concluded that AP/LAT is too busy attacking America to know their a$$ from their epicenter.
“Earthquakes are the result of forces deep within the Earth’s interior that continuously affect the surface of the Earth. The energy from these forces is stored in a variety of ways within the rocks. When this energy is released suddenly, for example by shearing movements along faults in the crust of the Earth, an earthquake results. The area of the fault where the sudden rupture takes place is called the focus or hypocenter of the earthquake. The point on the Earth’s surface directly above the focus is called the epicenter of the earthquake.”
Source
https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq4/severitygip.html
8.0 is very large. Few people in eastern Peru though.
Chile. Mexico city. Anchorage. Oregon in 1700. Indonesia. Japan 2008.