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Due to a report broadcast by the journalistic program "Tiempo Nuevo" hosted by Nicolás Lúcar on January 28, 2001, accusing former president Valentín Paniagua of having received money from a front man of Vladimiro Montesinos to finance his electoral campaign, the directors and hosts of América Noticias was outraged and decided to resign ...
Earthquakes in Peru are common occurrences as the country is located in a seismic zone. The interface between the Nazca and South American tectonic plates is located near the Peruvian coast. The South American plate is moving over the Nazca plate at a rate of 77 mm (3.0 in) per year.
Peru lies above the convergent plate boundary where the Nazca Plate is subducting beneath the South American Plate, along the line of the Peru–Chile Trench.In northern Peru the rate of convergence between the plates is about 70 mm/yr. Almost all of the seismicity that affects western South America is a result of this ongoing subduction, either directly or indirectly.
The 1586 Lima–Callao earthquake (Spanish: Terremoto de Lima y Callao de 1586) was an earthquake that occurred on July 9 along the coast of Peru, near the capital Lima. A section of the Peruvian coast, stretching from Caravelí to Trujillo, north to south, was severely damaged by the earthquake. Major destruction occurred in the capital city ...
Peru lies above the destructive plate boundary where the Nazca plate subducts beneath the South American plate.The plates converge at a rate of 70 mm per year. The country has been affected by many large megathrust earthquakes caused by slip along the plate interface, such as the 1868 Arica earthquake.
The 2001 southern Peru earthquake occurred at 20:33:15 UTC (15:33:15 local time) on June 23 with a moment magnitude of 8.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme). [ 5 ] [ 2 ] The quake affected the Peruvian regions of Arequipa , Moquegua and Tacna .
The 2007 Peru earthquake, which measured 8.0 on the moment magnitude scale, [4] hit the central coast of Peru on August 15 at 23:40:57 UTC (18:40:57 local time) and lasted two minutes. [4] [5] The epicenter was located 150 km (93 mi) south-southeast of Lima at a depth of 39 km (24 mi). [4] At least 595 people died and over 2,290 people were ...
Off the west coast of Peru lies a convergent boundary where the Nazca plate subducts beneath the South American plate. Beneath the South American plate of north-central Peru, the subduction is flat-slab , causing a significant amount of deformation at the surface, which is expressed as the High Andes . [ 1 ]