The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck at 5:45 p.m. EST and had a depth of 602 kilometers (374 miles).
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It was located about 169km west-northwest of Iberia and 688 kilometers east-northeast of the capital Lima.
Five minutes later, a second temblor of the same strength rocked the same area but with a different epicentre.
The quake, initially reported as a magnitude 7.1, was felt all the way to the south of Peru, close to the Chilean border, according to local media.
It was also reported that teams of firemen were dispatched to remote communities near the epicentre to assess damages.
According to the USGS, a replica of the same scale was felt an hour later. And there were three aftershocks, he added.
The navy ruled out the likelihood of a tsunami.
The epicenter was near the Eastern border with Brazil and slightly north of Bolivia.
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Local police in Cusco, a popular tourist city in Peru, confirmed that no damage was reported in the urban area, and evacuations had been conducted in airports near the quake-hit area. It killed 595 people.
