{"id":197893,"date":"2026-05-20T14:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197893\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:57:11","slug":"5-8-magnitude-earthquake-hits-peru-damaging-buildings-and-injuring-27-ap-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197893\/","title":{"rendered":"5.8 magnitude earthquake hits Peru, damaging buildings and injuring 27 | Ap-world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIMA, Peru (AP) \u2014 A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific region of southern Peru late Tuesday, injuring 27 people and damaging buildings, officials said. No deaths were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S Geological Survey said the quake&#8217;s epicenter was 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) east-southeast of the town of Pampa de Tate, in the Ica region, at a depth of 56.5 kilometers (35 miles).<\/p>\n<p>Peruvian Defense Minister Amadeo Flores visited the city of Ica and visited some damaged buildings, including San Luis Gonzaga University.<\/p>\n<p>Earthquakes are common in Peru, as the country lies on the Pacific \u201cRing of Fire,\u201d an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIMA, Peru (AP) \u2014 A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific region of southern Peru late Tuesday, injuring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,79110,38,9057,87692,8039,301],"class_list":["post-197893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-earthquakes","tag-general-news","tag-natural-disasters","tag-peru-earthquake-ica-damage","tag-science","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}