Overview
- U.S. and Chilean seismic agencies logged a magnitude 5.1 event off Calana in northern Chile on Wednesday and the Chilean center placed it near Calana with no reported injuries or damage.
- Peru’s Instituto Geofísico del Perú (IGP) recorded a magnitude 3.5 quake 31 km southwest of Lurín, Lima, at 23:43 on Wednesday with a reported depth of about 40 km.
- Early Thursday the IGP registered two shallow tremors near Huasicancha in Junín of magnitudes 3.4 and 3.3 at roughly 01:00 and 01:03, both about 11 km deep, and residents reported feeling them without damage.
- National agencies are keeping continuous public monitoring and urging simple preparedness steps such as an emergency backpack with water, nonperishable food, a radio and a first‑aid kit.
- Sismologists note Peru’s location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and say the central coast has stored tectonic strain since the 1746 megathrust event, which experts say could make a much larger quake possible in the long term.