LIMA, Peru - A moderate earthquake rattled parts of Peru's southern Andes Saturday, but there were immediate no reports of injures or damage.
The magnitude-5.5 quake struck at 11:26 a.m. in the highland department of Arequipa, some 360 miles south of the capital of Lima, Peru's Geophysics Institute said. The U.S. Geological Survey calculated the tremor's magnitude at 5.7.
Orlando Macedo, head of the Geophysics Institute in Arequipa, told state news agency Andina that the quake may have been caused by a collision of the Nazca and South American plates.
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