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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11 Feb: Devastation in Hawke's Bay's Wairoa over a fatal school bus crash yesterday, that killed one and critically injured two others

11 Feb: Emergency services are looking into the cause of a suspicious house fire in Auckland's Ranui overnight

11 Feb: A person's now died, three days after crashing on State Highway 2 near Wellington

11 Feb: Authorities say it could take up to 15 days to recover the tourist boat that ran aground near Akaroa

10 Feb: A person has died following a two-vehicle crash in Wairoa - while two others remain in a critical condition

10 Feb: One person has died after a crash between a vehicle and a cyclist in Upper Hutt's Trentham

10 Feb: One person is being flown to Wellington Hospital in a critical condition - after a house fire on a hillside between Eskdale and Bay View in Hawke's Bay

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