Fortunately it's East of the Andes in the Jungle, in a less populated area. It was deep but typically quakes there are deeper than that...I have to look at this one.
Some guy... somewhere... right now... is swearing to a woman that HE shook the world.
That is one big earthquake! Thank God if it was in an unpopulated area.
Here come da "Big One". Art Bell alert!
Where was BUSH when the earthquake hit? Where's FEMA? What about the Peruvian levees?!!
It looks like that area has a history with quaking....
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/OCHA-64BMVX?OpenDocument
“Several houses have fallen down and there are several people dead,” Carlos Mori, a resident of the jungle town of Lamas, near Moyobamba, told Radioprograms. “All of the residents of Lamas are in the streets. Most of the people are helping.”
Mr. Mori said about 20 houses had collapsed and that four people were dead.
Wake me up when there's one under "President" Chavez of Venezuela's house.
Reports range from 6.5 to 7.1.
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7.5 yikes ! How populated ?
Just another bumpy morning on top of the subduction zone.
This major earthquake ruptured beneath Northern Peru. The tectonic regime of this region is dominated by the ongoing subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the western margin of the South American plate. The subduction process begins west of the Peruvian coast at the Peru-Chile trench where the Nazca plate begins its decent into the mantle. The oceanic Nazca plate is moving east relative to the South American plate at a rate of about 7 cm per year. Convergence of these massive plates is not only responsible for the numerous earthquakes in the region but is also responsible for building the Andes mountains.