Word: ranrahirca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rescued and flown to Lima for treatment. But in the Andean foothills, thousands of others, despairing of early rescue, were trying to make their way by foot toward the coast. Some were already looking ahead. "We will have to rebuild it again," said a native of the village of Ranrahirca, which was destroyed by a lesser earthquake in 1962 and rebuilt with government aid. "But maybe not in the same place. Every huayco that drops into our valley from the Cordillera Blanca passes through our village...