List of earthquakes in Peru

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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 Script error: No such module "convert". per year.[1]

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Seismic hazard map in Peru

This earthquakes occur as thrust faulting on the interface between the two plates, with the South American plate moving towards the sea over the Nazca plate. The same process has caused the rise of the Andes mountain range and the creation of the Peru–Chile Trench, as well as volcanism in the Peruvian highlands.

Geology of Peru

The oldest rocks in Peru date to the Precambrian and are more than two billion years old. Along the southern coast, granulite and charnockite shows reworking by an ancient orogeny mountain-building event. Situated close to the Peru-Chile Trench, these rocks have anomalously high strontium isotope ratios, which suggest recent calc-alkaline volcanism.

In the Eastern Cordillera of Peru, Precambrian magmatism in the Huanaco region produced ultramafic, mafic and felsic rocks, including serpentinite, meta-diorite, meta-gabbro, meta-tonalite and diorite and granite that intruded after the first phase of orogenic tectonic activity.

The Grenville orogeny had a major impact in Peru. The basement of the Central Andean orogeny includes the rocks of the Arequipa Massif, which reach granulite grade on the sequence of metamorphic facies and formed around 1.9 billion years ago. Zircon grains in these rocks match those in Labrador, Greenland and Scotland, indicating that much of western South America originated as a promontory of the proto-North American continent Laurentia.

Earthquakes

Notable earthquakes in Peruvian history include the following:

Date Location Template:M MMI Deaths Injuries Notes Citations
2025-06-15 Callao 5.6 Mw V 2 135 Severe damage [2]
2024-06-28 Arequipa 7.2 Mw VIII 20 Moderate damage [3]
2023-03-18 Tumbes 6.8 Mw VII 2 Several Severe damage in Tumbes [4]
2022-07-13 Moquegua 5.5 Mw VII 6 Moderate damage [5]
2022-05-27 Ica 5.5 Template:M IV 8 Minor damage [6]
2022-05-26 Puno 7.2 Mw VII 87 Moderate damage [7]
2022-05-12 Lima 5.5 Template:M VII 2 11 Moderate damage [8]
2022-03-16 Arequipa 5.5 Template:M VII 6 Severe damage [9][10][11]
2022-02-03 Loreto 6.5 Template:M VI Minor damage/Intermediate depth [12]
2021-11-28 Loreto 7.5 Template:M VIII 12 136 Severe damage/Intermediate depth
2021-07-30 Piura 6.2 Mw VII 721 Severe damage
2021-06-22 Lima 5.9 Mw VI 1 20 Moderate damage
2020-06-07 Ancash 4.5 Template:M IV 1 [13]
2019-05-26 Loreto 8.0 Mw VIII 2 30 Intermediate depth [14]
2019-03-01 Puno 7.0 Mw VII 1 2 [15]
2018-08-24 Madre de Dios 7.1 Template:M III Great depth [16]
2018-01-14 Arequipa 7.1 Template:M VII 2 139 [17]
2016-12-01 Puno 6.2 Template:M VII 1 17 40 houses damaged in Lampa Province [18][19]
2016-08-15 Arequipa 5.5 Template:M 9 68 605 homes destroyed [20]
2015-11-25 Ucayali 7.6 Template:M V [21]
2015-11-25 Madre de Dios 7.6 Template:M IV [22]
2014-09-27 Cusco 5.0 Template:M VII 8 60 homes damaged
2013-09-25 Arequipa 7.1 Mw VIII 190 homes damaged [23]
2012-01-30 Ica 6.4 Mw VI 119 Buildings damaged [24][25]
2011-10-28 Huancavelica 6.9 Mw VII 1 [26]
2011-08-24 Ucayali 7.0 Mw VI 1 20 Buildings damaged [27]
2007-08-15 Ica 8.0 Mw IX 595 2,291 Severe damage [28][29]
2005-09-26 San Martín 7.5 Mw VI 20 266
2001-07-07 Arequipa 7.6 Mw VII 3 Aftershock [30]
2001-06-23 Arequipa 8.4 Mw IX 74–145 2,713 Tsunami 7 m (23 ft)
1996-11-12 Ica 7.7 Mw VIII 24 Severe damage [31]
1996-02-21 Nazca 7.4 Mw V 12 Moderate damage
1993-04-18 Lima 6.3 Mw 10
1991-04-04 Loreto 6.5 Mw IX 100 Severe damage
1990-05-29 Amazonas 6.8 Mw VIII 300 Great damage in Moyobamba
1986-04-06 Cuzco 6.1 Mw VII 27
1986-01-11 Ancash 5.1 Template:M IV 1 Moderate damage/landslides [32]
1979-02-16 Arequipa 6.8 Mw VIII 100 Severe damage
1974-10-03 Lima 8.1 Mw IX 78 2,400
1970-12-10 Tumbes 7.6 Ms X 82 350 Moderate damage [33]
1970-05-31 Ancash 7.9 Mw VIII 66,794–70,000 50,000 Extreme damage, Major landslide
1970-02-14 Huanuco 6.1 Mw 14
1969-10-01 Junin 6.9 Mw 635 Severe damage
1966-10-17 Lima 8.1 Mw IX 100
1963-08-15 Puno 7.7 Template:M 1 Great depth [34]
1960-11-20 Lambayeque 7.8 Mw VIII 13 Tsunami 9 m (30 ft)
1960-01-15 Ica 7.1 Mw VII 1 Minor damage [35]
1960-01-13 Arequipa 7.8 Ms X 63 200 Moderate damage [36]
1958-01-15 Arequipa 7.0 Mw 69
1953-12-12 Tumbes 7.5 Mw VIII 7 20
1950-05-21 Cuzco 7.0 Mw 1,625 Severe damage
1947-11-01 Junin 7.6 Mw 1,242
1946-11-10 Ancash 7.3 Mw IX 1,400
1943-01-30 Cuzco 6.5 Mw 252
1942-08-24 Ica 8.2 Mw IX 30 Tsunami 1.6 m
1940-05-24 Lima 8.2 Mw 562 Severe damage in Lima
1937-12-24 Pasco 6.8 Mw 194
1928-05-14 Chachapoyas 7.2 Mw X 1,928
1917-05-21 Arequipa 6.1 Mw 32
1914-12-04 Ayacucho 6.7 Mw 400
1913-11-04 Apurímac 6.5 Mw 253
1913-08-06 Arequipa 7.9 Ms X 2 3 Great Damage [37]
1906-12-26 Tacna 7.9 Ms Shallow Earthquake [38]
1877-05-09 Tarapaca 8.8 Mw XI 2,385 Major Tsunami
1869-08-24 Arequipa 8.4 Ms [39]
1868-08-13 Arica 9.0 Mw XI 25,000 Extreme damage, Major tsunami 16 m (52 ft)
1828-03-30 Lima 8.3 Ms 162 [40]
1821-07-10 Arequipa 8.2 Ms VII [41]
1784-03-13 Arequipa 8.4 Template:M X 400 Tsunami Template:Cvt
1746-10-28 Lima, Callao 9.0 Template:M XI 5,941 Tsunami Template:Cvt
1725-01-06 La Libertad 7.6 Mw 5,000
1716-02-11 Ica 8.6 Template:M X [42]
1716-02-06 Arequipa 8.8 Template:M IX [42]
1678-06-18 Lima 8.4 Ms IX 3 [43]
1687-10-20 Ica 8.7 Mw X 5,000 Major tsunami
1655-11-13 Lima 8.8 Ms IX [39]
1650-05-12 Cuzco 7.7 Mw 460
1650-03-31 Arica 7.0 Ms 5,000
1650-03-31 Cuzco 8.1 Template:M X [44]
1630-11-27 Lima 8.1 Template:M VII Moderate damage [45]
1619-02-14 La Libertad 8.6 Ms 350 [42]
1615-09-16 Arica 8.8 Template:M Small tsunami [46]
1609-10-20 Lima 8.6 Template:M VIII [42]
1604-11-24 Arica 8.5 Mw 1,200
1600-02-28 Arequipa 8.1 Template:M X [47]
1600-02-19 Arequipa 7.9 Template:M XI 1,500 [48]
1590 Arequipa 7.7 Ms VII [49]
1586-07-09 Lima 8.6 Mw 22
1584-03-17 Lima 8.4 Ms VII [50]
1582-08-15 Arequipa 7.8 Template:M VII [51]
1582-01-22 Arequipa 8.2 Ms X [52]
1555-11-15 Lima 8.4 Template:M VII Major tsunami [53]
1513-01-01 Arequipa 8.7 Template:M VIII [42]
1471 Arequipa 8.0 Template:M IX [54]
The inclusion criteria for adding events are based on WikiProject Earthquakes' notability guideline that was developed for stand alone articles. The principles described are also applicable to lists. In summary, only damaging, injurious, or deadly events should be recorded.

See also

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