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LIMA, Peru - A powerful earthquake shook Peru's southern coast on Wednesday, toppling some houses in Lima and sparking a tsunami warning for South America's central Pacific coast.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit about 90 miles southeast of Lima at a depth of about 25 miles.

The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a "regional tsunami warning and watch" for coastal areas of Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia as well as a tsunami advisory for the U.S. state of Hawaii. But the center stressed that it did not know if a tsunami had been generated.

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Seems like theirs been alot of earthquakes lately......no?

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Some reports are saying TWO earthquakes, the first 7.7 and the second 7.5

Powerful quakes hit Peru, spark tsunami warning
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070816/india_nm/india289989_1;_ylt=Apb24K5GqNlrg2cg w82V0y29IxIF

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LIMA (Reuters) - Two powerful earthquakes within minutes of each other struck Peru on Wednesday, rattling buildings in the capital and triggering a tsunami warning for four countries.

The quakes had a magnitude of about 7.5 and office workers ran onto the streets in fear as buildings in Lima shook in two bouts that lasted around 20 seconds each.

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USGS website is showing ONE earthquake of 7.5 and two aftershocks of 5.8 and 5.9 magnitude.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/10/285_-15.php

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quote:
Originally posted by rimasco:
Seems like theirs been alot of earthquakes lately......no?

Indeed...

Recent Earthquakes - Last 8-30 Days
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/qed/

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According to the NOAA/NWS Tsunami Warning Center, a Tsunami has been observed on a deep ocean pressure sensor off northern Chile. The tsunami is not expected to threaten the US West Coast, BC, or Alaska

However, an evaluation of the pacific wide tsunami threat is underway and there is a possibility that Hawaii could be elevated to a watch or warning status.

Theoretical arrival times for the Tsunami are shown here:
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/ttvu385166-03.gif

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they've upgraded it to a 7.9 too...

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ALOT!! [Eek!] [Eek!] [Eek!] [Eek!] [Eek!]

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450 dead in Peru quake

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PISCO (PERU): The death toll rose to 450 on Thursday in the magnitude-8 earthquake that devastated cities of adobe and brick in Peru's southern desert. Survivors wearing blankets against the winter cold walked like ghosts through the ruins.

The dust-covered dead were pulled out and laid in rows in the streets, or beneath bloodstained sheets at damaged hospitals and morgues. Doctors struggled to help more than 1,500 injured, including hundreds who waited on cots in the open air, fearing more aftershocks would send the structures crashing down.

The center of the destruction was in Peru's southern desert, in the oasis city of Ica and the nearby port of Pisco, about 125 miles southeast of the capital, Lima.

The United Nations said the death toll was expected to rise beyond the 450 reported by Peru.

``It is quite likely that the numbers will continue to go up since the destruction of the houses in this area is quite total,'' said Assistant Secretary-General Margareta Wahlstrom.

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At first it seemed odd that Ica would suffer so much more damage than Lima when there was only a difference of 25 miles between their distances to the epicenter of the initial 7.9 earthquake....

However, once you overlay a surface projection of the slip distribution available from the USGS website, it makes perfect sense.

The location of greatest slip during the earthquake was actually centered ~65 miles SE of the calculated epicenter, or approximately 35 miles SW of the city of Ica.

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Source for Slip Distribution (Includes Legend):
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2007/us2007gbcv/finite_fault.php

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Looting, anxiety follow Peru quake

By FRANK BAJAK, Associated Press Writer

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PISCO, Peru - Earthquake survivors desperate for food and water ransacked a public market, while other mobs looted a refrigerated trailer and blocked aid trucks on the Pan-American highway, prompting Peru's president to appeal for calm Friday.

Aid reached the disaster zone on Friday morning, bringing relief to a city that had largely fended for itself for 36 hours, but hopes of finding more survivors diminished.

At least 510 people were killed in the quake and 1,500 were injured, overwhelming the few hospitals in Peru's southern desert region, and severe damage to the only highway slowed trucks from Peru. But food, water, tents and blankets were finally arriving, and with Peruvian soldiers distributing silver caskets, the first mass funerals were being held.

"Nobody is going to die of hunger or thirst," President Alan Garcia said following complaints that aid was not arriving fast enough for thousands who lost loved ones, homes and belongings in Wednesday's magnitude-8 temblor and the many aftershocks that have followed.

"I understand your desperation, your anxiety and some are taking advantage of the circumstances to take the property of others, take things from stores, thinking they're not going to receive help," Garcia said. "There is no reason to fall into exaggerated desperation knowing that the state is present."

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Peruvians Face Daunting Task Of Rebuilding What Was Lost

Sunday, August 26, 2007
By Lucien Chauvin
Special to The Washington Post

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PISCO, Peru -- Carmen Angulo tells visitors to step carefully when entering her home. Pots and pans lie to the right, clothes to the left, and her three children, her parents and a few nieces and nephews nap on mattresses tossed on the floor.

This is not the way she would normally invite people in, but this is not her normal house

Angulo now lives in a big white tent.

Like more than 40,000 other families living along Peru's coast, the Angulos lost their house in the magnitude-8 earthquake on Aug. 15 and now face the daunting task of rebuilding communities reduced to rubble.

"We were on the street with nothing before this shelter was opened," said Angulo, 29, who is staying in a tent city with 300 other families on what used to be the soccer field and playground of a now-destroyed school. "We have been given everything we need for the time being. Now we have to start rebuilding our lives."

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