On the 26th May 2019 at 02.41 local time (07:41:14 UTC) an M8.0 earthquake occurred in Northern Peru, 75km SSE of Lagunas. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110 km. At least one person has been killed and several injured. The region is prone to large earthquakes due to the nearby oceanic Nazca plate subducting beneath the continental South American plate.
The earthquake was recorded at seismic stations worldwide, including stations of the Irish National Seismic Network (INSN), see seismic waveforms below (select figure to enlarge).
Further information is available through the links below:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us60003sc0/executive
https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=767801#summary
