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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16 Jul: The deaths of three people in an afternoon-school crash has rocked the small Auckland town of Waiuku

16 Jul: A man's in custody - after Police chased down a vehicle driving the wrong direction on Auckland's Southern Motorway last night

15 Jul: A motorcyclist's been taken to hospital with serious injuries - after colliding with a car in Hamilton just before 7:30 this evening

15 Jul: A man in his 80s is in hospital - after being trapped when his campervan blew over in Northland's Tauranga Bay camp ground

15 Jul: Assessments continue in Tasman, after the worst flooding in decades

15 Jul: A woman has died, two days after a two-vehicle crash on State Highway 1, south of Hampden in Otago, on Sunday afternoon

15 Jul: One person has died in a crash south of Palmerston North

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