Coastal Peru has a history of very large earthquakes . The August 15th shock originated near the source of two previous earthquakes , both in the magnitude 8 range , which occurred in 1908 and 1974 . This earthquake is south of the source of a magnitude 8.2 earthquake that occurred in northern Peru on October 17 , 1966 , and north of a magnitude 8.4 earthquake that occurred in 2001 near Arequipa in southern Peru . The largest earthquake along the coast of Peru was a magnitude 9 that occurred in 1868 in Arica . It produced a tsunami that killed several thousand people along the Peruvian coast and also caused damage in Hawaii
that occurred in 1868
1868 Arica earthquake
2007 Peru earthquake