LIMA: A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck near the coast of Peru on Friday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.
The quake was at a depth of 10km, GFZ said.
GFZ earlier pegged the earthquake at a magnitude of 6.4.
The US National Tsunami Warning Center said there is a tsunami threat from the quake, based on available data, having earlier said there was no tsunami threat.
It estimated that the tsunami waves were reaching from 1m to 3m above the tide level along some parts of Peru’s coast.