Sunday, March 7, 2010

6.3 magnitude earthquake hit the southern East Pacific Rise (2570 mi W of Lima, Peru) - Saturday, March 06, 2010 at 11:05:24 PM at epicenter

MAP 6.3 2010/03/07 07:05:25 -16.108 -115.256 10.0 SOUTHERN EAST PACIFIC RISE
Magnitude6.3
Date-Time
Location16.108°S, 115.256°W
Depth10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
RegionSOUTHERN EAST PACIFIC RISE
Distances4140 km (2570 miles) W of LIMA, Peru

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Pacific_Rise
The East Pacific Rise is a mid-oceanic ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary located along the floor of the Pacific Ocean. It separates the Pacific Plate to the west from (north to south) the North American Plate, the Rivera Plate, the Cocos Plate, the Nazca Plate, and the Antarctic Plate. It runs from an undefined point near Antarctica in the south northward to its termination at the northern end of the Gulf of California in the Salton Sea basin in southern California.