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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18 Feb: Five fire crews are battling a house fire on Whangarei's on Morningside Road

18 Feb: A young driver accused stealing a car and colliding with other vehicles in Christchurch is appearing in Youth Court today

18 Feb: Dozens of Canterbury kids spent a night hunkering down in Banks Peninsula - which was cut off by yesterday's torrential rain

18 Feb: A man's been arrested - after allegedly attempting to break through the cordon at the Mount Maunganui landslide

18 Feb: The Missing number in the hundreds of thousands in Syria, where mass graves of torture victims are found weekly

17 Feb: Police say there is no risk to the public after a dog's killed a person at a home in Kaihu - in Northland - late this morning

17 Feb: Three people ended up in Dunedin hospital on Saturday - in varying states of consciousness, hit in the head by thrown objects at a party on Castle Street

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