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Magnitude 8.0 earthquake, 75km SSE of Lagunas, Peru

75 points| johnabela | 6 years ago |earthquake.usgs.gov | reply

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[+] dbrgn|6 years ago|reply
That region is not densely populated fortunately. Mostly affected are Yurimaguas (population 60k), Tarapoto (population 180k) and Moyobamba (population 80k).

From what I gathered on Twitter, there are some collapsed buildings and some power outages, probably a few people hurt, but nothing as devastating as during the 2007 earthquake in Ica.

This happened in the middle of the night and it's now early morning, so more news will probably come in over the next hours.

[+] tenken|6 years ago|reply
Not "densely" populated unless you're one of the 240k living there.
[+] Shorel|6 years ago|reply
Alarms in the building woke me up at 2:41 AM and the doors were shaking, so we evacuated the apartment buildings and only returned after half an hour.

I live in Bogotá, Colombia, about 1200 kilometers away from the epicentre.

[+] jeffm3|6 years ago|reply
8.0+ earthquakes are quite unique, there's on average only one 8.0+ earthquake per year. [1]

[1] https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/browse/stats.php

[+] dghughes|6 years ago|reply
I can't even comprehend the amount of energy required for an 8.0M earthquake.

From searching it seems an 8.0M earthquake is equivalent to a nuclear explosion of 6,270,000 tons of TNT but a 7.0M is 199,000 tons of TNT.

[+] CaptainBern|6 years ago|reply
My girlfriend was in Barranco at the time of the earthquake and had to leave the building because she and her family felt unsafe (in all the years I've known her it's the first time they actually thought it was serious enough to evacuate). Pretty scary I'd say.