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Peru quake upgraded to 7.0-magnitude: US experts

WASHINGTON : The earthquake that struck a remote area of eastern Peru near the Brazilian border on Wednesday has been
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earthquake_PeruWASHINGTON: The earthquake that struck a remote area of eastern Peru near the Brazilian border on Wednesday has been upgraded from 6.8 to 7.0 in magnitude, experts from the US Geological Survey said.

There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties and the US government's Pacific warning center said no destructive tsunami was created after the quake, which was deep at 90 miles (145 kilometers) underground.

 

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011

 

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