Peru Earthquake 2001
On june 23 2001 the moment magnitude m w 8284 southern peru earthquake caused widespread ground failures throughout a region at least 400 km long and 120 km wide.
Peru earthquake 2001. Ubicacion de distritos afectados por sismo departamentos arequipa moquegua ayacucho y tacna. It was the most devastating earthquake in peru since the catastrophic 1970 ancash earthquake and globally the largest earthquake since the 1965 rat islands earthquake. This is a list of earthquakes in 2001.
The last time a quake of magnitude 70 or larger struck peru was in september 2005 when a 75 magnitude earthquake rocked perus northern jungle killing four people. The 2001 southern peru earthquake occurred at 203315 utc on june 23 with a moment magnitude of 84 and a maximum mercalli intensity of viii. In 2001 a 79 magnitude.
The quake affected the peruvian regions of arequipa moquegua and tacna. A magnitude 76 struck southern peru on july 7 at a depth of 330 km 205 mithis is aftershock of magnitude 84killing one people. Over 3000 structures were damaged or destroyed and 2000 hectares of farmland flooded and covered with sand.
The quake damaged extensively southern peru particularly the arequipa moquegua tacna area. The june 23 2001 m 84 earthquake near the coast of southern peru occurred as the result of thrust faulting on the plate boundary interface between the nazca and south america plates. The variety and intensity of these effects in an area near the southern end of the earthquake fault rupture seldom if ever observed in previous earthquakes has led us to coin the term shattered landscape to describe their consequences.
A major earthquake with a richter magnitude of 81 occurred in peru at 2033 utc 433 pm edt 333 pm local time on saturday june 23 2001. 22 people were killed in the municipality and 62 were reported missing.