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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13 Feb: Convoys will resume today through Waioweka Gorge

12 Feb: Inclement weather bearing down on the South Island has forced Coast to Coast organisers to activate an alternative mountain run route for the two-day event starting tomorrow morning

12 Feb: Police have found the vehicle of a man who was swept away in his car and killed in Auckland's Mahurangi River last month - during severe weather

12 Feb: Thick black smoke from a house fire is rising across Chatswood, on Auckland's North Shore

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