In the magnitude 8 earthquake that occurred on Sunday in the Amazon rainforest, one person was killed and 26 were injured in Peru and Ecuador, while the residents of Lima took to the streets in a panic, reported the Agence France-Presse this morning.
The earthquake occurred on Sunday at 2.41:9.41 a.m. local time (70:12.000 a.m. EDT) about XNUMX kilometers southeast of Lagunas, a city of XNUMX people in northern Peru.
Seismological institutes in Peru and the USA announced that the earthquake had a magnitude of 8,0 on the Richter scale at a depth of 114 kilometers.
The earthquake lasted an unusually long time, 127 seconds, which caused the residents of Lima to take to the streets in a panic.
The earthquake was also felt in Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.
Earthquakes are common in Peru as well as in Ecuador and neighboring Chile. In August 2007, a similar earthquake near Lima killed more than 500 people.
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