A powerful earthquake shook Peru‘s southern Andes Mountains on Thursday, measured at magnitude 6.7 by the US Geological Survey (USGC) and 7.2 by Peru’s Geophysics Institute.
The USGS said the quake occurred at 1 p.m. local time (18:00 GMT) with an epicenter 38 kilometers (24 miles) northwest of the town of Upahuacho, in the southern Ayacucho region, and a depth of 66.7 kilometers.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
The jolt was felt across several regions of southern Peru, including Ica and Arequipa.
Earthquakes are frequent in Peru which lies on the southeastern edge of the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an area of frequent seismic activity.
In 2007, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake in a province of the Ica region left nearly 600 people dead.
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