Featured TwitPic: Machu Picchu, Peru

"machupicchu..maravilla del Perú y del mundo." (Machupicchu .. wonder of Peru and of the world.) (Posted by @janemari, of Lima City, Peru, May 14, 2009)

Featured TwitPic: Machu Picchu, Peru

Featured TwitPic: Rush hour in Lima, Peru

"Empieza la hora punta" (Rush hour begins) (Posted by @mikytorres, Lima, Peru, April 22, 2009)

Featured TwitPic: Rush hour in Lima, Peru

Earthquake in Peru

Per @BreakingNewsOn, "A strong earthquake struck 110 miles from Lima, Peru." Preliminary reports put the magnitude of the quake at 5.7 and 5.8.

Here's some of the first tweets on the incident from Peru.

@froncal1 (Lima, Peru): Hubo un temblor y me quedé sentada!!! (There was an earthquake and I was sitting!!!)



@Camuss (Lima, Peru): te dije que era temblor... http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009cpa1.php (I told you I was shaking...)


@Karikuy (Lima, Peru): just experienced a 5.5 earthquake that is said to have been off the coast of Peru, funny, I thought it was just a large truck passing by.

Earthquake in Peru