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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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An earthquake struck the Peruvian Andes on All Saints Day Saturday, killing at least 50 people and destroying towns like San Ramon, La Merced, and causing heavy casualties in Satipo. Relief planes with supplies were dispatched, but bad weather hindered landings.
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LIMA, Peru (AP) Planes bearing nurses, medicine and food were dispatched today to stricken areas in the mountains of Peru, where an earthquake shattered the peace of All Saints Day Saturday, killing at least 50 persons and reportedly demolishing two Andes towns.
Government officials said bad weather and quake-ruined runways had prevented planes from landing in the affected zones, but added that if landings were still impossible today supplies would be parachuted.
Poor communications from the isolated mountain area where the quake struck obscured details of the damage, but official dispatches said San Ramon and neighboring La Merced, both about 130 miles northeast of Lima, had been "totally destroyed." Each town has a population of about 5,000.
Reports indicated that the heaviest loss of life was at Satipo, 165 miles east of Lima, where dispatches said at least 40 had been killed and many injured.
The Lima newspaper El Comercio published a report by the mayor of San Ramon that seven men had been killed and seven injured at San Felix, near San Ramon.
The shocks, said to be the severest in the mountain region east of Lima, were felt 650 miles north in the area of Quito and 200 miles southeast at Ayacucho.
In stricken Satipo the river and resultant floods washed away a hospital.
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Primary Location
Andes Mountains, Peru
Event Date
All Saints Day Saturday
Outcome
at least 50 killed, including 40 at satipo; towns of san ramon and la merced totally destroyed; hospital in satipo washed away by floods
Event Details
Earthquake struck isolated mountain areas, demolishing San Ramon and La Merced (pop. 5,000 each, 130 miles NE of Lima); heavy losses at Satipo (165 miles E of Lima) with 40 killed and many injured; 7 killed and 7 injured at San Felix; shocks felt in Quito and Ayacucho; relief planes dispatched but landings prevented by weather and damaged runways, supplies to be parachuted if needed.