What the records say
- When
- 26 Sep 2005
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.5
- Where
- Peru
- Coordinates
- 5.68° S, 76.40° W
- Deaths
- 5
- Injuries
- 60
- Depth km
- 115
2005 Northern Peru earthquake
At 20:55 PET on 25 September 2005, an earthquake measuring Mw 7.5 or ML 7.0 struck the Department of Loreto in Peru, resulting in 20 fatalities and 266 injuries, with 1,316 homes damaged or destroyed, mostly in the town of Lamas. It had a maximum perceived intensity of VI (Strong) on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2005 northern Peru earthquake: A magnitude 7.5 earthquake, the strongest in the country in four years, strikes northern Peru”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En Perú, un terremoto de 7,5 sacude la Amazonía, destruyendo la ciudad de Lamas y dejando un saldo de 20 muertos y 266 heridos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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