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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27 Jan: Thousands of people have reported feeling a magnitude 4.5 earthquake near the capital this afternoon

27 Jan: A person's moderately injured after a ute drove off State Highway 6 and crashed - on Lower Buller Gorge Road

27 Jan: A teenager is due in court after a woman was found dead in Selwyn overnight

27 Jan: Three people have been injured in a car crash on State Highway 1 in Marlborough

27 Jan: One person has died and another has been arrested after an overnight incident at Burnham, in the Selwyn District

26 Jan: Emergency services are cleaning up human waste spilled out of a rolled truckload of portaloos on State Highway 1, north of Timaru - but it's not as bad as first announced

26 Jan: A man's appearing in court - after a kidnapping incident in Blenheim over the weekend

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