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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.
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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 totrn 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."
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/:
accessed July 16, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
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