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Not even a sliver of calm could be found in Anita's home in Peru during a recent earthquake. This CCTV footage shows Anita ...
The ​​United States Geological Survey (USGS) says the earthquake registers a 5.6 magnitude. At least one person has been killed and five others injured after a 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit Peru and ...
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake rocked northern Peru on Sunday, collapsing a 16th-century Catholic church tower although no deaths or serious injuries were immediately reported.
A 7.5 magnitude earthquake shook the remote Amazon region of northern Peru on Sunday and was felt as far as Lima in the center of the country, destroying 75 homes but with no deaths reported.
A strong earthquake shook southern Ecuador and northern Peru on Saturday, killing at least 15 people, trapping others under rubble, and sending rescue teams out into streets littered with debris ...
A powerful earthquake struck off Peru's coast early Sunday, tumbling adobe homes in small, rural towns, killing at least one person and leaving dozens injured, officials said.
The 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit a mountainous area 43 kilometers (27 miles) east-northeast of Tambo at a depth of 101 kilometers (63 miles), according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The death toll from a powerful earthquake that rocked parts of Peru and neighboring Ecuador rose to two on Monday, with more than 30 people injured, authorities said. Sunday's 8.0-earthquake hit a ...
An 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck northern Peru on Sunday morning, according to preliminary readings from the United States Geological Survey.
A “major” earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 has struck northern Peru, with some damage to homes and several minor injuries reported. The tremor occurred in a sparsely populated region of the ...
Earthquakes are frequent in Peru, which lies on the Pacific's so-called Ring of Fire. On August 15, 2007, a similarly sized quake struck near Lima, killing more than 500 people.
More: 8 earthquakes strike along Iran-Iraq border, rattle Baghdad More: Magnitude-4.4 earthquake near Berkeley shakes San Francisco area Jorge Chavez, chief of Peru’s Civil Defense Institute ...