A 6.3-magnitude quake on Monday struck the central coast of Peru, causing power outages in some areas and at least seventy wounded, local authorities said.
The epicenter of the quake was 280 kilometers southeast of Lima in the Ica region at a depth of 39.2 kilometers, said the United States Geological Survey (USGS). So far there have been seventy wounded.
"The manager of the service network of Ica, Fernando León Castañeda reported that so far 22 people injured have been treated in hospital Essalud Augusto Mendoza Hernández," says Peruvian newspaper El Comercio.
The injured included a child beaten, a woman with a broken foot and a man with a broken pelvis. Only one remains under observation, the daily details.
At the hospital Santa Maria del Socorro de Ica, meanwhile, have reached 17 people with injuries and minor trauma.
The tremor was felt moderately in Lima, but in the area of Ica terrified people fled their homes and stayed in the streets fearing aftershocks, reported the local radio station RPP.
"We felt a tremendous earthquake that scared us a lot, something like 2007," White said Cabanilla, a villager from Ica to the radio.
A health official said he came to Ica area hospital with minor injuries two people, a woman and a girl who fell from the stairs of their house to go out frightened by the quake.
Also reported outages in Ica and the nearby town of Pisco area and communications problems in mobile phones.
Ica was hit in 2007 by a powerful magnitude-8 earthquake that killed more than 500 dead and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
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