Peru Rehearses Its Response to a Magnitude 8.8 Quake Off Lima and Callao
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Lima, Aug 14 (EFE).- The president of Peru, Keiko Fujimori, led this Friday the national multi-hazard drill, the second of this year, which tests the preparedness of the population and emergency authorities in the face of different dangers, including a possible earthquake of magnitude 8.8 in Lima and the neighboring province of Callao. https://holanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/rss-efee5c5df00-65d4-48e1-b506-88dab945fb0c-hd-web.mp4 Thousand…
Peru rehearses its response to a magnitude 8.8 quake off Lima and Callao
Peru held the year's second national multi-hazard drill on Friday, an exercise testing evacuation protocols and the response capacity of the public and the authorities to a possible magnitude 8.8 earthquake centered off the central coast of Lima and Callao.
An area of approximately 400 kilometres off the central coast of Peru concentrates efforts and tectonic deformation that, according to studies by the Geophysical Institute of Peru (IGP), could generate an earthquake of magnitude 8.8, a scenario used by the authorities to prepare the population in the face of a high intensity earthquake.
The president presented the simulated figures of the II Multi-hazard Simulation, which projected thousands of victims and millions of people affected in case of a mega-seism off the central coast.
So far this year, the Piura region records 37 earthquakes. COER called for strengthening prevention and preparedness
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