On Friday a magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck near the coast of Peru, at a depth of 10 kilometres, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said, cited by Reuters and carried by AGERPRES. That is the whole of the Romanian wire. It gives no town, no hour and no casualties.

For the same shock, the United States Geological Survey sheet, event us7000ty1a, gives magnitude 5.8, of the mww type. The epicentre is 79 kilometres west-southwest of Changuillo, also at 10 kilometres depth, at 14.99 degrees south and 75.88 degrees west. Origin time is 16:43 UTC, which is 11:43 in Peru. Two institutes, two magnitudes. Neither of them is a casualty count.

The USGS PAGER alert is green. On their scale, green means a low likelihood of deaths and of damage. Seven “Did You Feel It?” reports came in, with a felt intensity of 5, and the instrumental intensity is about 4.5. The tsunami flag on the sheet is 0: the USGS does not signal a tsunami. These bulletins carry no death and no damaged building.

The epicentre is at sea, off the southern coast. Terra writes that Pope Leo XIV was that same day in Chiclayo, on the northern coast, more than 1,100 kilometres from this point. It is the same Friday, not the same place.

Image: Wikimedia Commons — the coast at Paracas, Ica region, photograph by Inti Runa (CC BY 2.0). Paracas is on shore, north of Nazca. The frame is not from the epicentre and does not show damage.

Sources consulted: A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck in Peru — AGERPRES; M 5.8 - 79 km WSW of Changuillo, Peru — USGS; Magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Peru — Terra.