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Piura is actually a seismic zone – we just must make safe buildings.   SULLANA, Peru – The land shook on Monday, April 2 nd , 2012. The first record of Peru’s Geophysical Institute (IGP, as its initials in Spanish) marked 6.2 magnitude in Richter Scale and VI intensity in Mercalli Scale . Later, it was modified to 5.0 magnitude in Richter’s and III intensity in Mercalli’s, taking Piura City as a reference.   The epicenter , that originally was located 25 miles to the west of Sullana City , ended to correct to 12 miles to the southeast of that spot, 57 miles depth. At least, the department’s coast felt it strong causing the people to overreact – the most were resting at home. It was eigt past ten at night, local time (0308 GMT, April 3 rd , 2012).   The mechanism of quakes in Piura is not different from the western coast of South America. The phenomenon is caused by the subduction of Nazca Plate against the South American Plate . Said simple, the subductio...

The basic you must know before, during, and after your place shakes. The land or the sea shake. It’s a fact that a quake breaks out everyday and every moment. Some are perceived by the human being, other don’t. we can’t avoid the process to happen. The fear and the questions appear almost immediately. Here we are going to take the most frequent ones, so answering them from a scientific perspective.   How do the quakes happen? The soil where we are onto seems to be an only  solid block, but it’s actually thousands of pieces floating over millions of liters of melted rock due to high pressure. Take many objects to float in a case, they could touch, crash, or embed, and every scenario’s cause transmits in waves. Let’s bring that figure out to the colossal size of the Earth . When some of those pieces interact violently to another, it breaks out a vibration we experience like a shake. Or like we call it technically – a quake . The scientists call it seism , but it des...

The quakes have a sort of weak point – the science learned how to take advantage of it.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo     SANTA MARÍA DE NIEVA, Peru – On November 28th, 2021, 5:52 PET (1052 GMT), a 7.5 magnitude quake shook Barranca District, Datem del Marañón Province , Loreto Department – it was mostly felt in the Peruvian Northern’s third and 19 of 24 provinces in Ecuador. A portion of Colombian Southern and a piece of Brasilian Western also felt the shake. A 3-year-old boy passed away, there were dozens of wounded, more than thousand injured, and such other damaged or unhabitable buildings.   Peru’s Geophysical Institute (IGP, as its initials in Spanish), the official bureau watching and reporting if a quake happens, launched a notification on the social media just 8 minutes after many people jumped out their beds in the most occidental portion of South America. The information came from Santa María de Nieva, Amazonas Department, 60 miles to...

A 6.1 magnitude event shook the whole Piura Department, and this is what the science knows up to now.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   Peru is SHAKING! Magnitude 6.1 Earthquake in Sullana, Peru - YouTube   SOJO, Peru – On July 30 th , 2021, noon, it was goin to be another winter-else, sunshine. Some people were inside their homes watching the Peru’s Bicentennial military parade that, due to Covid-19 pandemic, might have in a closed military facility at Lima City. Just ten minutes after the zenith (1710 GMT), the land under the capital of Miguel Checa District , Sullana Province , shook without a sense and violently.   At a spot, 25 miles under the surface of rock, sand, and pulverized clay, two huge pressing landmasses, maybe 3300 feet thickness, shocked one each other and started a list of focused events in a portion running from  Marcavelica District , just the north of Miguel Checa, and going to the border of provinces Sullana and Piura, at ...