Article by Daniel Scorpie – published Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 19:27 / Updated Tuesday, June 17, 2025 19:31
A strong earthquake, with a magnitude of 5.8 degrees on the Richter scale, affected Peru on Sunday. The earthquake, with the epicenter at 23 kilometers southwest of Callaro, a port city located almost like the capital Lima, and caused, beyond material damage and the death of a person, the suspension of a party in the Football Championship.
The Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center (CSEM) has announced that the telluric movements have caused panic among the population, but also damages for the infrastructure of the reached areas. Cracks in the structure of some buildings and on the streets, the shock wave also resulting in human victims.
The fans panicked in the stands and the commentators gave the alarm!
A 36 -year -old man died in the north of the capital, after a wall of a block under construction collapsed over him! The population in Lima scared and the world went out, fearing that replicas of the earthquake of 5.6 degrees.
Fortunately, the tsunami alarm was not given, as is sometimes the case in the cases of strong earthquakes. Such events are frequent frequent in Peru and other vulnerable countries in the so-called “Pacific Fire Ring”.
The world was scared during a football match in the first league in Peru. It had only started Sporting Cristal-Deportivo Garcilaso 3-2, from the 15th stage, when on the television station that transmitted the match were broadcast images, at the time of an occasion at the guest gate.
The dust cloud appeared on the field in the start of the Sporting Cristal match – Deportivo Garcilaso, suspended 35 minutes due to a earthquake / photo: Facebook
No one was injured at the stadium. Not asking for medical help
Referee Augusto Menendez stopped the meeting, while from the stands were heard, while the fans began to show to the nocturnal pillars and other fixed structures that were rocked.
And the commentators began to worry, and the players of the two teams retreated puzzled to the edge of the field, waiting for a “power station” decision.
The consequences of the earthquake produced in Peru Sunday near the capital Lima / Photo: Imago
After a few tens of seconds, above the stadium appeared a cloud of dust, raised on the coast on Costa Green. There were no incidents in the stands, no one was injured and asked for medical help, and the referee waited until the situation calmed down. However, the break lasted 35 minutes, Sporting winning in the 87th minute of the penalty.
Crystal is in the sixth place with 25 points, four “lengths” by the University FC leader, while Deportivo Garcilaso is two positions below, with 23 points.
