Cuban President expresses solidarity with Peru after strong earthquake

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 29 (ACN) Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel expressed his solidarity with the Peruvian people and government after the strong earthquake that shook the Andean nation on Sunday.

All our solidarity to the brotherly people of #Peru and its government. Count on #Cuba for recovery, the president wrote on his official Twitter account.

Diaz-Canel replied to a tweet from his Peruvian counterpart Pedro Castillo Terrones in which he transmitted "All my solidarity with the people of Amazonas in the face of the strong earthquake that occurred".

I have arranged that the ministries and different instances of the Executive deploy immediate actions. You are not alone, brothers. We will support those affected and we will act in the face of the material damages, said the Peruvian statesman.

A report from Prensa Latina news agency, dated in Lima, states that only material damages were reported on Sunday after a high intensity earthquake in the northeastern region of Amazonas, where the National Institute of Civil Defense continues to evaluate the consequences of the quake.

The municipal authorities of several towns in the provinces of Condorcanqui reported landslides and other damages caused by the 7.5 magnitude telluric movement that was felt in almost the whole country and in Ecuador and Colombia.

The source indicates that according to the Peruvian Geophysical Institute, the earthquake was registered at 05:52 local time, with epicenter 98 kilometers east of Santa María de Nieva in Condorcanqui, Amazonas, in the northern jungle of Peru and at a depth of 131 kilometers.