The epicenter was located 35 km (22 mi) off the coast of Casma and Chimbote in the Pacific Ocean, where the Nazca plate is being subducted beneath the South American plate. It had a moment …

Approximately 70,000 people died. The epicentre of the earthquake was under the Pacific Ocean about 15 miles (25 km) west of Chimbote, a fishing port in the department of Ancash, north-central Peru. It …

On Sunday, May 31, at 27.3 seconds after 4:23 pm EDT, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake centered at 9.2° South, 78.8° West, about 22 miles west of Chimbite, a major Peruvian fishing port.

The earthquake that led to the massive devastation in Peru was actually a series of earthquakes (also called aftershocks) that lasted approximately 45 seconds. The epicenter of the earthquake was 15 …

May 20, 2025 · A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Chimbote in Peru. Exact location, longitude -79.2544° West, latitude -9.5148° South, depth = …

May 4, 2022 · Eran las 3:23 PM de un 31 de mayo de 1,970, cuando casi simultáneamente y debido a este movimiento sísmico de 45 segundos con una intensidad de 7,8 en la escala Richter y que tuvo …

Location of South American and Nazca plates on the Peruvian coast. The earthquake began on May 31, 1970, at 15:23:32. Its epicenter was located 20 km west-southwest of the city of Chimbote, in the …

The city of Chimbote, found in the Ancash department of Peru's coastal region, suffered an earthquake on May 31, 1970. The earthquake had a 7.9 magnitude on the Richter scale, and its epicenter was …

The 1996 Chimbote earthquake occurred on February 21 at 07:51 local time about 130 km off the coast of northern Peru, near the Peru–Chile Trench. The earthquake had a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.5 …

The table below visualizes the distribution of all earthquakes that occurred within 300km of Chimbote in the past 10 years. No earthquakes with a magnitude of 6 or above have occurred near Chimbote …