Earthquake Horror As Huge 6.0 Scale Quake Hits Thousands With Tremor Felt For Miles

<h4>Earthquake Horror<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Peru has been hit by a huge earthquake this morning&comma; which was also felt in other nearby countries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The German Research Centre for Geosciences &lpar;GFZ&rpar; confirmed the huge tremor&comma; which was a magnitude 6&period;1&comma; struck the centre of the south American country&period; The earthquake was at a depth of 10km&comma; close to the surface&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is currently unknown if any people were hurt or buildings damaged in the ongoing incident&comma; with emergency crews standing by&period; Last year the nation was hit by a magnitude 7&period;2 quake off its coastline which caused a number of aftershocks over the next two weeks which sparked a tsunami warning&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Eight people were hurt in the previous earthquake&comma; sparking fears of more casualties this time around&period; The incident comes 24 hours after residents in the Yorkshire Dales were shaken awake by an earthquake overnight which sounded like an &&num;8220&semi;explosion&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One local told how she was &&num;8220&semi;scared half to death by the 2&period;5-magnitude quake&comma; which was recorded just after 1&period;30am near Litton in North Yorkshire&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">The tremor&comma;<&sol;a> which had a depth of 2&period;5 miles&comma; according to the British Geological Survey &lpar;BGS&rpar; was felt an hour away from the village&comma; according to locals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One woman told how she was awake with a migraine&comma; 40 minutes away from Litton&period; She said she heard a &&num;8220&semi;strange deep rumble&&num;8221&semi; early Friday morning and another said they thought it was military planes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another wrote she lives half an hour away from Litton and felt it&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Scared me half to death up in Starbotton&period; I&&num;8217&semi;d convinced myself it was a bad dream before hearing others heard it too&period; My whole house shook and the noise&excl; Thought a car had come off road and hit the barn&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Others blamed the &&num;8216&semi;Craven Fault&&num;8217&semi; line for the quake&comma; which is a series of geological fault lines which run along the edges of the Yorkshire Dales&period; In December 1944 residents of the Dales were roused by a &&num;8216&semi;sleeping monster&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was a significant earthquake near Skipton&comma; North Yorkshire that caused rattling windows&comma; dislodging chimneys and sliding furniture&period; It had a magnitude of 3&period;1 and 4&period;8 on the Richter scale&period; Because it happened during World War II some locals initially feared it was a German bomb&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<em><strong>Source&colon; Mirror<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;