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A strong shook downtown Lima, Peru
during the night, but no reports of injuries or damagE
have been received. A seismograph registered the
tremor at 5.6 on the ten point Richter scale.SIL VTR =E RE ... ;46.. .
Sunday's disastrous earthquake in Peru was
recorded at 7.5 on the Richter scale. In the port
city of Chimbote--half the buildings lie in ruin--
as the quake destroyed thousands of buildings and
almost totally demolished a number of towns.
Some huts in Chimbote crumbled like matchboxes
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and a thousand bodies have been found in the
Paratroopers were dropped into some citie sI
provisions, doctors and medical supplies were also
delivered. The disaster hit the central and northern
reaches of Peru and covered the largest areas ^ffected
by an Peruvian quake.
One survivor at Chimbote said"the tremor we have
lived through is unbelievable."EATON: LIVE
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Peru earthquake report], script, June 4, 1970, 12:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1260882/m1/1/?q=%221970-06-04%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.