Urgent: 5.5-magnitude quake hits Northern Peru -- GFZ-Xinhua

Urgent: 5.5-magnitude quake hits Northern Peru -- GFZ

Source: Xinhua

Editor: huaxia

2026-01-08 13:29:00

BEIJING, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 jolted Northern Peru at 05:17:44 GMT on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said.

The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 4.03 degrees south latitude and 77.70 degrees west longitude.