Many people were seriously injured by collapsing walls.

Yesterday's magnitude 6.1 quake was centred 12 kilometres west of Sullana in the Piura region, 36 kilometres deep.

187 homes were damaged and six more are uninhabitable.

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12 Dec: Surf lifesavers are urging Aucklanders to be safe in the water, following four rescues and two people losing their lives in one day

12 Dec: Two aircraft - including an Air New Zealand flight - came within 41 seconds of a head-on collision over Northland

12 Dec: Police are investigating an unexplained death in West Auckland's Ranui

11 Dec: Kapiti's Coastguard has been involved in two life-saving rescues in the space of 24 hours

11 Dec: The death of a man at Auckland's Muriwai Beach earlier this year has brought attention to a danger not immediately obvious to some beachgoers

11 Dec: Police are asking for the public's help, to find a missing woman and her three children aged one, 10 and 12

11 Dec: Hamilton Police have located a seven-year-old boy, reported missing from Deanwell last night

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