August 15 2007 Peru Earthquake
On august 15 2007 at 640 in the evening an 80 magnitude earthquake struck off the central coast of peru leaving 597 people dead and injuring over two thousand more.
August 15 2007 peru earthquake. Local time an 80 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of peru 45 kilometers 25 miles west northwest of chincha alta and 150 kilometers 95 miles south southeast of lima according to the us. As a result a tsunami warning has been issued for the pacific region including the following countries. At the location of the earthquake the two plates converge at a velocity of about 77 mmyr with the south american plate moving up and seaward over the nazca plate.
The earthquake caused several landslides and closed roads. The epicenter was located 150 km 93 mi south southeast of lima at a depth of 39 km 24 mi. August 15 2007 peru earthquake mw 75 on august 15 at 640pm local time an earthquake with a magnitude of 75 struck off the coast of peru approximately 60km south of pisco.
The quake damaged extensively the centralsouthern peru region and was particularly destructive at the peruvian cities of ica and pisco south of lima. The earthquake was recorded at 6. The earthquake had a moment magnitude mw of 80 usgs harvard cmt and the hypo center was located at 376s and 7697w at a depth of 39 km usgs.
The finite fault solution of ji and zeng ground surface projection of the fault plane. Fault rupture propagated south from the hypocenter tavera et al 2007. The august 15 2007 m 80 earthquake near the coast of central peru occurred as the result of shallow thrust faulting about 100 km east of the peru chile trench and on the subduction zone interface between the nazca and south america plates.
10 years on is the country better prepared for a possible repeat disaster. The 2007 peru earthquake which measured 80 on the moment magnitude scale hit the central coast of peru on august 15 at 234057 utc 184057 local time and lasted two minutes. Peru chile ecuador and colombia.
A great earthquake with moment magnitude of 81 occurred in peru at on august 15 2007. On august 15 2007 at 640 pm. Published on aug 15 2007.
As of august 16 according to cnn the quake had left at least 337 people dead and 1350 people injured.