A 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit the city of Lima in Peru, and its surroundings left at least one dead, and provoke landslides. The National Police confirmed that a 36 -year -old man died crushed by the fall of a wall over the car in Independencia district in the country’s capital
The tremors began at 11:35 am local time (1:35 pm Brasília time) and had their epicenter located 30 kilometers southwest of the city of Callao, neighboring Lima, according to the National Seismological Center. Peru’s president, Dina Boluarte, asked for “tranquility to the population” and stressed that there is no tsunami warning to the country’s coast.
Peru, with 34 million inhabitants, is located in the so -called Pacific Fire belt, which extends along the west coast of the Americas and the Asian East. In these regions there is the largest seismic activity in the world. Only in Peru, there are a hundred perceptible earthquakes by the population each year.
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The latest earthquake of great magnitude occurred in the Amazon region of November 2021, with magnitude 7.5. He left 12 injured and destroyed more than 70 houses. In 1970, Peru suffered one of the most lethal earthquakes of the last 100 years, which left 67,000 fatalities in the Ancash region in the country’s center.
