The country is regularly exposed to tremors as it is located on the Pacific belt known as the Ring of Fire
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A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck near the coast of Peru on Friday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.
There is a tsunami threat from the quake, based on available data, said the US National Tsunami Warning Centre.
The UAE's National Centre Meteorology (NCM) also recorded the temblor at 9.36am, local time, in its seismic networl.
The quake — which was earlier pegged at a magnitude of 6.4 — was at a depth of 10km (6.21 miles), GFZ said.
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