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Powerful earthquake rocks northern Peru
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7 hit northern Peru late Sunday, causing power outages and cutting phone service throughout much of the region. One radio report said four people were killed. Peru's Geophysics Institute said the quake struck at 8:55 p.m. and was centered about 60 miles northeast of the jungle city Moyobamba, 420 miles north of the capital Lima. "Several houses have fallen down and there are several people dead," Carlos Mori, who lives near Moyobamba in the town of Lamas, told Radioprogramas. "All of the residents of Lamas are in the streets. Most of the people are helping." Mori said about 20 houses had collapsed and that four people were dead. A police officer in Tarapota, another town near Moyobamba, told Radioprogramas that power had gone out and that there was some damage to buildings, but no deaths to report. A regional official said some walls had crumbled in the jungle city of Chachapoyas, about 100 miles northwest of the epicenter, and power was out about an hour but there were no deaths. The earthquake was felt throughout Peru's northern coast and as far away as Bogota in Colombia. It was the strongest quake to strike Peru since an 8.1-magitude quake hit the Arequipa province in southern Peru in June 2001, killing at least 75 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless.
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