Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Yungay, Peru: Paralleling the Santa River (right foreground), the valley road leading to this city of an estimated 20,000 persons runs into a thick layer of mud and rock that covers Yungay 6/3. Only 2,500 were reported to have survived the landslides and floods that followed a violent earthquake 5/31.
Yungay, Peru: Paralleling the Santa River (right foreground), the valley road leading to this city of an estimated 20,000 persons runs into a thick layer of mud and rock that covers Yungay 6/3. Only 2,500 were reported to have survived the landslides and floods that followed a violent earthquake 5/31.
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Yungay, Peru: Paralleling the Santa River (right foreground), the valley road leading to this city of an estimated 20,000 persons runs into a thick layer of mud and rock that covers Yungay 6/3. Only 2,500 were reported to have survived the landslides and floods that followed a violent earthquake 5/31.

United Press International · [ca. June 1970]

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[Information from item housing] Earthquakes - Peru June 1970

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