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Two meteor strikes causing 3.8 event on Richter scale.

http://anteriores.epensa.com.pe/enlinea/ediciones/2004/feb/05/locales/images/info-are1.jpg


One landing in El Castillo showing up as a 3.8 event on the Richter scale...

Translated:
An identified object fell on hills of the small town of the Castle, in the district of Aplao, the province arequipeña of Castile. In agreement with the testimony of many settlers, it was like?una fire ball, that it at noon crossed the firmament of the last Monday. Immediately later, a tremor of regulating magnitude alarmed to the settlers of Aplao and the neighboring district of Huancarqui. In agreement with geologists of the University San Agustín of Arequipa, the object would be a meteorite that hit against the Earth at a speed that oscillates between 35.000 and 250.000 kilometers per hour. The Geophysical Institute of Peru (IGP), on the other hand, confirmed that to the 12,40 hours of Monday an earthquake of 3,8 degrees in the scale of Richter took place and its epicenter was located to 25 kilometers to the south of Aplao, and that lasted approximately 20 seconds.

...and the other in Cusco.

Translated
A crater of at least 50 meters of diameter was found in the province of Anta, in Cusco. According to the settlers of the zone, the immense orifice originated east Tuesday by the fall of a meteorite and at heart of the crater a water spurt can be appreciated that emanates of the ground

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