A magnitude 4 tremor was recorded this Monday, February 17 in the city of Pampa Hermosain the province of Ucayali of the department of Loreto, the National Seismological Center (censis) of the Geophysical Institute of Peru (PGI) reported.
The telluric movement began at 08:33 (local time) and originated 70 kilometers southwest of Pampa Hermosa with a depth of 122 kilometers and latitude and length of -7.7, -75.67 degrees. Due to its magnitude, the emiden warning range was green, it specified in a report the national seismic network.
GPI censis obtains its data from the National Seismic Networkformed and composed of a series of speed, acceleration and displacement sensors distributed throughout the country.
Peru is located in the area known as the Pacific Fire beltregion that concentrates 75% of the volcanoes that exist in the world and where approximately the 80% of stronger telluric movements of the world.
The so -called Pacific Fire Ring is made up of the mountainous area of western Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, the United States and Canada, and then and then Fold at the height of the Aleutian islands and go down the coasts and islands of Russia, Japan Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Eastern Timor, Brunéi, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and New Zealand.
In the case of Peru, the country is in the South American tectonic plate that collides frontally with the Nazca platebeing in friction generate tension, which is released in the form of earthquakes; In addition, the region has constant volcanic activity.
The Fire Ring extends over 40 thousand kilometers and has the form of a horseshoe, in addition, Within this line there are 452 volcanoes And it houses most of the so-called “supervolcanes”, whose eruptions are of Vei-8 levels, classified as catastrophic.
The Latin American country has had to face various seismic events that have left hundreds of dead, injured and innumerable material damage. Here a count of the most relevant.
May 31, 1970
The magnitude 7.9 earthquake originated in the Department of Ancash followed by a flood that left the city of Santo Domingo de Yungay at 3:23 pm.
This fact It is considered the most destructive earthquake in the history of the countrynot only because of the magnitude but for the number of fatalities that caused, estimated at 67,000according to the document “The earthquake of Ancash and the alluvious avocation of the snowy Huascaran”, written by the geophysicist and scientific advisor of the National Institute of Civil Defense (Indeci), Mateo Casaverde while there were also 150,000 injured, affecting in the same way to the departments of Huácamo, Lima and La Libertad.
Due to this catastrophe, in 1972 the Government of Peru founded the National Institute of Civil Defense, in charge of devising plans to deal with this type of accidents and prepare national drills every May 31.
October 3, 1974
A Magnitude 8.0 earthquake It happened in the capital, Lima, at 09:21, a movement that also felt on the Peruvian coast to the south. The movement lasted about 90 seconds and left 252 dead and 3,600 injured.
May 29, 1990
Another telluric movement of 6.4 caused the death of 77 people, left 1,680 injured, 58,835 victims and 11 thousand housing destroyed. The movement, which began at 09:34, left damage to the cities of San Martín, Amazonas, Cajamarca, Rioja, Moyobamba, Chachapoyas, Jaén and Bagua.
June 23, 2001
A tremor of magnitude 6.9 affected southern Peru in the regions of Moquegua, Tacna and Arequipa and leaving 74 people dead, 2,689 injured, more than 21,000 victims, 64 missing people, 35,601 affected homes of which 17,584 were destroyed.
The earthquake had several replicas and had an intensity of VIII, which generated a tsunami which also caused another 26 deaths. It was the most devastating tremor after the 1970s of Ancash and the largest worldwide after the Rat Islands.
August 15, 2007
Peru was harshly damaged by One of the most violent earthquakes in its modern history. Occurred at 6:40 p.m., the Pisco earthquake Magnitude 8 had a duration of 3 minutes 50 seconds. It was one of the most violent earthquakes that occurred in Peru in recent years, being exceeded by the 2001 Arequipa earthquake. This fact left 596 deceased people.
May 26, 2019
One of the last earthquakes in Peru was known as “Loreto earthquake”, which had a magnitude of 8 and originated at 02:41 local time and that he consequently left a dead person and more than 2,500 people affected.
