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    Peru quake destroys 134 homes, injures dozens

    LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian authorities said Saturday that 134 homes were destroyed and 103 people treated at hospitals for injuries during a 6.9-magnitude quake just off the central coast.

    Civil defense chief Alfredo Murgueytio told The Associated Press there were no deaths and most of the collapsed homes were of adobe.

    Two adobe churches also were seriously damaged, including the 18th century cathedral of the provincial capital of Ica.

    The cathedral, build by Jesuits, already was weakened by a 2007 earthquake as well as temblors in 1813 and 1942. Both it and another church in Ica were too damaged to safely enter, said Alberto Bisbal, a top civil defense official.

    President Ollanta Humana said he was cutting short his stay in Paraguay for the IberoAmerican summit to head directly to the quake zone, where nearly 600 people were killed in an 8.0-magnitude quake in August 2007.

    Friday's quake sent people running panicked into the streets in cities that were badly damaged then.

    Authorities said many people slept outside Friday night.

    "The people are tense and a lot of us didn't sleep," said Cristhian Rodriguez, a vendor in Pisco, which was mostly leveled in the 2007 quake.

    Murgueytio said two army engineering battalions were joining police in supporting residents who lost homes or otherwise had property damage. He estimated the number at 1,220.

    At least nine aftershocks followed the Friday quake. The most significant had a 5.5 magnitude, as measured by the U.S. Geological Survey.

     

    16 comments

    • Esteban  •  6 mths ago
      Los Angeles, I hope you're ready....the "Big One" is coming soon!!!
      • A Yahoo! User 6 mths ago
        Or San Francisco, or both.
      • BabyGirl 6 mths ago
        what would be worst if we don't get cought up with Jesus. That's what's more scary than the earthquake itself. Man can only die once, but dying twice is worst than dying once. The second death is the worst and for eternity.
      • just saying 6 mths ago
        Sodom is not ready for the big one but it is coming.
    • Gary  •  6 mths ago
      Now just hold on thar....one cotton-pickin minute........this is not really good news !!!

      Wasn't it just on these forums, about a certain very large Volcano in Bolivia, that has been inflating by a remarkable amount for quite some time now ???
      Bolivia, correct me if I slept through geography class, is not that far from Peru.

      I would dare to speculate, that if this volcano is indeed as large as stated, and has been swelling as fast as stated, given prevailing winds, if this thing should decide to go ballistic, and imitate the Phillippines 1991 "Pinatubo" eruption [ google ] then the Amazon Basin, with all that rainforest, is definitely in jeopardy.

      Don't mind me, though.....I have had this fascination with volcanoes, for lots of years, and have watched with equal fascination, the number of large volcanoes presently active on earth.... as well as the "Supervolcano" Calderas such as Yellowstone, which for now are just "percolating"

      The question posed by Mr. J. Buffett in his song rings true. == " Whatcha gonna do - Where ya gonna go when the Vol-cano Blows ??"
    • old guy  •  6 mths ago
      Still not gonna cancel my survivors party plans for 12/22/12.
      • robert 6 mths ago
        Nobody can predict the end of humanity. Ask the evangelicals. Have fun
      • Acoustic shadow 6 mths ago
        Party like it's not 1999 . Oop's , Prince is so greedy , he will probably sue me.
    • BabyGirl  •  Irvine, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Get ready for the big one is comming, that's right Jesus Christ is coming back and all the signs are there. Mock if you want, but that's one thing that's guarantee. Jesus promised to return and gather his people. Are you ready for him? if not, it's still time to repent. I know some of you will make fun, but when it happens, you will be sorry for not believing in him.. Just like in Noah's time. Read your bible and its all in there. When God makes a promise, he does it. He is not a man nor thinks like a man. He is God allmighty. Get ready folks.
      • Joel Binkley 6 mths ago
        They will refuse to see until they have to bend their knees !
      • Nicholas 6 mths ago
        Im sure you have to realize how crazy you sound right now. You sound like that douche nozzle from Westboro. This has nothing to do with religion, this has to do with science. Stop pushing that religious cultist crap on everyone. Mother Nature is #$%$ and that is all their is to it. All your religious crap does is insight wars.
      • Joel Binkley 6 mths ago
        The Bible is the Word of God in spite of what anyone thinks. Jesus Christ said that in the last days before His return that men would be lovers of selves , that it would be as in the days of Noah. That there would be earthquakes in many different places and that it would be like birth pains (starting out slowly then increasing in intensity.) But for me the most important warning was When men call evil "good".That's exactly what's taking place in our world right now.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  6 mths ago
      California is going to get it soon.
      • BabyGirl 6 mths ago
        Not just California, the entire earth is going to get it soon. Look around you. Listen to the news. Look what's been happening for the past few years. It's gonna get worst. Famine, earthquakes, economy meltdown, government take over. the next will be the anticrist to take over all nations.
      • a citizen 6 mths ago
        We can only hope so.
    • Arthur Ide  •  6 mths ago
      Lima sits over two tetonic plates. When, 300 to 200 millions of years ago, there was but one continent (Panagea), there was one plate--shattered when meteors hit the water planet, separating the plate into several shards. As the waters moved under the new land masses, continents formed, and with it instability. Today the planet changes by laws of gravity and the reality that mortals are creating vacuums in the crust through constant drilling (oil) and digging (coal), while deforesting the surface (tree roots are as large as their limbs, and when trees are cut down to satisfy greed for timber, the tallest and strongest are sacrificed and with it the safety of the land that is eat by erosions). Eventually South America will become two continents as the rainforests are sacrificed to the timber industry, and eventually the planet will give up trying to save itself. There are acts of ignorant mortals--no gods or goddesses are involved, for mortals are their own worst enemy who fashion deities after their own selfish image.
      • Machete 6 mths ago
        well said. except conservatives and religious people will think you belong in a straight jacket.
      • BallsofKungfucious 6 mths ago
        No panacea in Panagea i gather....
      • A Yahoo! User 6 mths ago
        The Permian, I remember it well. Those Siberian Traps were a real bug-a-boo. So it was a meteor eh. You do know we had a super continent called Rodinia way befor that? Did a meteor break that super continent up also?
    • Taxus  •  Deltona, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Let's see... 134 homes destroyed, dozens injured. Should we send aid? How about all the people in the northeast and everywhere else in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA who lost everything in the floods and tornados this YEAR????
    • Michael  •  6 mths ago
      IT IS SAD TO HEAR MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO THEM.
    • ddog1960  •  6 mths ago
      Adios
    • John  •  6 mths ago
      wonder how much this is gonna cost us
    • SUNSHINE PREVAILS  •  6 mths ago
      It is one earthquake after another currently. Time to not build anymore tall buildings to topple onto people with broken structures too large and strong to move by hand! Someone needs to figure out a building module that is less harmful--and that most folks can afford--and one that adapts to all the season's weather patterns! Ok--Who want to be the first self made Billionaire for this project?
    • Coondog  •  6 mths ago
      The Northwest US is due for a Monster quake too, just a matter of time
    • American  •  Boston, United States  •  6 mths ago
      I am sure we will be sending millions now to Peru. If not billions. Why not we help everyone else besides ourselves.
    • Ragman  •  6 mths ago
      I can hope it hits "Lost" Angeles, can't I? I'd love to see illegals running for their lives! Freakin sponges!
    • James Mangialetti  •  Charlottesville, United States  •  6 mths ago
      The beginning of sorrows !
    • JCT  •  Homestead, United States  •  6 mths ago
      over there they call a house a card board folded in 2. lol
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