(Reuters) -A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck near the coast of Peru on Friday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.
The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ said.
GFZ earlier pegged the earthquake at a magnitude of 6.4.
The U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center said there is a tsunami threat from the quake, based on available data, having earlier said there was no tsunami threat.
(Reporting by Nilutpal Timsina in Bengaluru; editing by Christopher Cushing and Jason Neely)
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