Lima:
A sturdy earthquake shook Lima and regions of central coastal Peru late Tuesday, with no instant reports of casualties or harm.
The quake was of magnitude 6, Peru’s Seismological Center stated, when the US Geological Survey which monitors quakes worldwide pegged it at magnitude 5.8.
The quake struck at 9:54 pm nearby time (0254 GMT Wednesday), with an epicenter 33 kilometers southwest of Mala, some one hundred kilometers south of Lima.
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