The World - News from Aug. 22, 1985
An earthquake shook Peru’s Pacific coast, injuring at least 14 people and damaging a dozen buildings in the northern city of Chimbote. The National Geophysical Institute said the quake registered 5.7 on the Richter scale, and was centered in the ocean 50 miles off Trujillo, which is 330 miles north of Lima.
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