SitiWanMahani - Amaran tsunami selepas Gempa
bumi 7.0 pantai Peru. Beberapa rumah runtuh dan amaran tsunami dikeluarkan
selepas gempa bumi 7.0 yang melanda hanya di luar pantai selatan Peru. Kesan
ini disebabkan bangunan di ibu negara Peru, Lima, untuk menggoncang, walaupun
bandarnya 480 kilometer dari sini.
“Gempa bumi sebesar ini
kadang-kadang menghasilkan tsunami tempatan yang boleh merosakkan sepanjang
pantai yang terletak dalam jarak 100 kilometer dari pusat gempa gempa bumi,” kata
Pusat Amaran Tsunami Pasifik berkata dalam satu kenyataan. Pusat dinasihatkan
pihak berkuasa untuk bertindak sewajarnya.
Gempa berlaku hanya 80
kilometer dari bandar terdekat Peru, Acari, menurut US Geological Survey,
dengan pusat gempa pada kedalaman 33 kilometer. Gempa bumi itu pada mulanya
diukur pada magnitud 6.8.
Walaupun tiada kematian atau
kecederaan dilaporkan, rumah di wilayah Caraveli di Arequipa runtuh dalam
kejutan.
“Rumah telah runtuh, dinding
telah runtuh, terutama yang diperbuat daripada adobe . . . tetapi tidak ada
laporan yang kehilangan nyawa,” Santiago Neyra, Datuk Bandar bandar di rantau
ini, memberitahu RPP radio.
Bukit yang dilaporkan mula
runtuh di kawasan itu, seorang penduduk memberitahu stesen, menyekat lebuh
raya.
Gempa bumi di berat di Peru
adalah satu kejadian yang agak biasa sebagai negara yang terletak di antara 2
plat tektonik. Pada tahun 2007, 8.0 magnitud gempa bumi berpanjangan 3 minit melanda
Pisco, di pantai tengah Peru, membunuh 595 dan mencederakan 3,000. Satu amaran
Tsunami telah dikeluarkan, regangan sejauh Hawaii.
Pada hari Selasa, satu gempa
bumi 7.7 melanda selatan Pakistan, dan dirasai sejauh New Delhi, ibu negara
jiran India, menyebabkan sekurang-kurangnya 327 orang mati dan lebih 350
cedera. Sebuah pulau baru telah diwujudkan di belakangnya.
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Tsunami warning after 7.0 earthquake off Peru
coast
Some homes crumbled and a
tsunami warning was issued after a 7.0 earthquake struck just off Peru’s
southern coast. The impact caused buildings in the Peruvian capital, Lima, to
shake, despite the city being 480 kilometers away.
“Earthquakes of this size
sometimes generate local tsunamis that can be destructive along coasts located
within 100 kilometers of the earthquake epicenters,” the Pacific Tsunami
Warning Center said in a statement. The center advised authorities to act
appropriately.
The quake struck just 80
kilometers from the nearest Peruvian city, Acari, according to the US Geological
Survey, with its epicenter at a depth of 33 kilometers. The quake had
originally been measured at a magnitude of 6.8.
While no deaths or injuries
were immediately reported, homes in the province of Caraveli in Arequipa
crumbled in the shock.
“Houses have fallen, walls have
fallen, especially those made out of adobe…but there has been no report of a
loss of human life,” Santiago Neyra, a town mayor in the region, told RPP
radio.
A hill reportedly started
collapsing in the area, a resident told the station, blocking a highway.
Heavy earthquakes in Peru are a
fairly common occurrence as the country lies between two tectonic plates. In
2007, an 8.0 magnitude earthquake lasting three minutes struck Pisco, on Peru’s
central shore, killing 595 and injuring
3,000. A Tsunami warning was issued, stretching as far as Hawaii.
On Tuesday, an earthquake of
7.7 struck southern Pakistan , and was felt as far as New Delhi, the capital of
neighboring India, leaving at least 327 people dead and over 350 injured. A new
island was created in its wake.
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