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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Other Accident and Emergency News

09 Jan: Two men stranded on a drifting jetski off Taranaki Coast - have been rescued

09 Jan: One person has died in an early morning single-car crash south of Napier

09 Jan: An unexplained death at an Auckland home on New Year's Day was reportedly a three year old boy

08 Jan: A person is seriously injured after being trapped under a vehicle in central Auckland.

08 Jan: One person's seriously injured after a glue drum exploded at an industrial site near Motueka

08 Jan: Police are appealing for information, about a boat stolen from a commercial yard in Whangarei on Tuesday

08 Jan: Formal identification is still under way for a body recovered on southern Mount Huxley

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