June 15, 2025 Earthquake: Lima, Callao, Peru
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Lima, Callao, Peru on June 15, 2025 at 16:35:30 UTC, 53 km below the surface. It killed 1 person.
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The earthquake
- Date
- June 15, 2025
- Time
- 16:35:30 UTC
- Place
- Lima, Callao, Peru
- Magnitude
- 5.6 (Mw)
- Focal depth
- 53 km (33 mi)
- Intensity
- 4 on the Modified Mercalli scale
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 12.147° S, 77.315° W
- Country
- Peru
The toll
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 135
- Damage
- Moderate (about $1 to $5 million)
- Houses destroyed
- 21
- Houses damaged
- 147
Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
2 dead, 135 injured (reference #1250)
One person killed at Callao and another at Lima. At least 135 people injured; 4 homes destroyed and 164 damaged; 154 public buildings and a road damaged; power and telephone outages occurred along the coast of central Peru from Huaura to Lima. Landslides and rockfalls occurred in several areas, including one which blocked Circuito de playas de la Costa Verde. (reference #13456)
1 death, 135 injured, 4 houses destroyed, 17 houses uninhabitable, 147 houses damaged (reference #14258)
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- 1657, Lima,callao, Peru
- 1654, Lima, Chile, Peru
- October 29, 1746, Lima, Callao, Peru
- October 20, 1687, Lima, Peru
- August 15, 2007, Ica, Pisco, Lima, Peru
- May 24, 1940, Peru
- October 3, 1974, Lima, Callao, Peru
- March 30, 1828, Lima, Callao, Peru
- July 10, 1586, Lima, Peru
- December 24, 1937, Huancabamba,oxapampa,el Progreso,san David, Peru
- January 5, 1974, Lima, Yauyos, Peru
- April 18, 1993, Lima, Peru
- January 8, 1865, Peru
- May 28, 1948, Canete, Peru
- March 28, 1982, Coast, Lunahuana, Lima, Huancayo, Peru
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Sources
Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 10911.