2015 Peru-Brazil border earthquake

This was the first of two similarly sized shocks near the Peru-Brazil border in southeast Peru. Both resulted from normal faulting at a depth of roughly 600 km, almost 1,000 kilometres east of the Peru-Chile Trench, within the subducted oceanic lithosphere of the Nazca plate.

Origin time (UTC)

2015-11-24T22:45

Magnitude

7.6

Magnitude type

mww

Depth (km)

606.21

USGS event page

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us100040ww

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: peru, deep focus, normal faulting, nazca plate

Coordinates: -10.5372, -70.9437

Part of Earthquakes of magnitude 7.5 and above in South America since 1990

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