Quake Shakes South Peru
A 4.5-degree earthquake on the Richter scale hit Monday the Peruvian department of Arequipa, 621 miles south of Lima, with no victims or material damages.

The tremor, located 11 miles northeast of Camana, struck at 8:06 local time (13:06 GMT), unleashing panic among residents who feared the collapse of their houses.

According to Peru’s Geophysics Institute, this is the country´s largest intensity quake in many years, and had a 50-mile deep epicenter.

Last year, Peru registered over 150 earth tremors when the annual average is 100.

Peru is located in the Pacific´s volcanic belt, one of the most active seismic zones of the world due to the confrontation of pressures between the Continental and Nazca Plates