A 7.5 earthquake has hit off the central coast of Peru. Tsunami warnings have been issued for large parts of the Pacific Coast. AP reports three quakes have hit. Buildings reportedly collapsed and blackouts are being reported as well. UPDATE: 8:38AM EST: The death toll in the earthquake has reached 337 with more than 1,290 injured, the country’s health minister, Carlos Vallejos said.
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actually it was a 7.9 magnitude. for anyone who has ever felt a real earthquake, it makes a very big difference.
B”H the tsunami warnings have been dismissed, but still more than 70 are dead and many hundreds more injured.
1. A 7.9 earthquake is 2.5 times stronger than a 7.5.
their pretty fortunate that it did not strike a heavily populated city 7.5 or 7.9 1s HUGE
In the news alerts dated just half an hour later, it mentions that A 6.7-magnitude quake struck the Solomon Islands to the northeast of Australia. It then occurred to me that the word “Richter” in German means “judge”. Is, in these days of Yemei HaDin, The Judge telling us something?????