Back from Europe, Humala Visits Quake-Hit Ica

President Ollanta Humala, back from a trip to Europe, visited the city of Ica on Tuesday to inspect damage from a recent earthquake. Early Monday morning, Ica was hit by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake. The quake didn’t cause any major damage, but more than 100 people were injured, according to the government. In August 2007,, [...]

Activities Return To Normal In Ica Following 6.3 Quake

Activity returned to normal on Monday following a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that rattled Peru’s south coast Ica region, daily El Comercio reported. The earthquake occurred at 12:10 a.m. on Monday and its epicenter was 47 kilometers southwest of the city of Ica. Many of the residents spent the night in the street following the quake. The [...]

Congress Holds First Decentralized Session In Ica

Peruvian legislators on Thursday held the first decentralized session in the southern Ica region, where it approved the creation of a commission to investigate irregularities in Ica’s reconstruction work following the massive earthquake in August 2007. The motion was unanimously approved and gives the commission six months to investigate the issue, daily El Comercio reported. [...]

Congress to spend $47,700 on session in Ica

Plans by Peru’s Congress to hold a session in the southern city of Ica is expected to cost 130,000 soles (approximately $47,700), the president of Congress, Daniel Abugattas, said. “The session is a symbolic act of decentralization and we will try to make sure that the agenda of this session is intimately linked to Ica,” [...]

Magnitude 4.7 quake rattles southern Peru

A moderate earthquake shook southern Peru Monday morning, causing panic in Ica, Pisco and Chincha, but no reported casualties or damage. According to Radio Radio Programas, or RPP, the magnitude 4.7 quake struck Sunday, at 11:24 local time. On Aug. 15, 2007, an earthquake ravaged Peru’s southern coast. When it hit, the magnitude-8 earthquake lasted [...]

Illegal and unrestrained algae extraction may lead to oxygen depletion of air in Peru’s southern coast

In spite of a recently extended ban on the extraction, processing and commercialization of sea algae in Peru, the beaches of Paracas, Ica and Marcona along the southern Pacific coast continue to be stripped bare of these marine plants, harming the eco system and removing a primary source oxygen. The story was broken in an [...]

Corruption accusations continue to emerge following Aug. 15 earthquake

More than seven months after a magnitude-8 earthquake rocked southern Peru, authorities from the hard-hit Ica Department found a reportedly large quantity of donations hoarded in the house of a local mayor. According to daily El Comercio, authorities under the orders of prosecutor Ángel Mendoza Suppo confiscated food products, clothes, blankets, shoes, foldable beds, tents, [...]