(Reuters) – A 7.5 magnitude earthquake shook the distant Amazon area of northern Peru on Sunday and was felt so far as Lima within the heart of the nation, destroying 75 houses however with no deaths reported.
The seismological heart of the Geophysical Institute of Peru (IGP) mentioned the earthquake had a depth of 131 kilometers (81 miles) and that the epicenter was 98 kilometers from the city of Santa Maria de Nieva within the province of Condorcanqui.
The quake was felt all through central and northern Peru. Some residents left their houses as a precaution, in accordance with native radio and tv experiences.
No injury was reported to the 1,100-kilometer oil pipeline of state-owned Petroperu that crosses the Peruvian Amazon area to the Pacific coast within the north.
The Nationwide Institute of Civil Protection (Indeci) mentioned in a press release that 220 houses had been affected, 81 uninhabitable and 75 destroyed. Seven locations of spiritual worship and two buying facilities had been amongst broken amenities, Indeci mentioned, including that 4 residents had been injured.
President Pedro Castillo mentioned by means of Twitter that he ordered the fast deployment of help personnel and took a visit in a army airplane to the world.
“We are going to help these affected and handle materials injury,” he mentioned.
Walter Culqui, mayor of the city of Jalca Grande in Chachapoyas province, mentioned a number of homes had been broken, leaving three non-serious accidents. A part of the church tower within the space collapsed, he mentioned.
By means of social networks, electrical energy cuts had been reported in a number of places in jungle areas. Native TV pictures confirmed stretches of roads blocked by big rocks and filth that had been knocked unfastened.
The U.S. warning system mentioned there was no tsunami warning after the earthquake.
(Reporting by Marco Aquino in Lima and Aakriti Bhalla in Bengaluru, writing by Hugh Bronstein, Enhancing by Catherine Evans and Mark Porter)
