Earthquake Injures 30 in Peru...11/01/99

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- An earthquake that struck the central Andean highlands injured 30 people and destroyed 150 adobe homes, officials said. Peru's military was flying 20 tons of emergency supplies to an isolated village on Monday.

Sunday's 4-magnitude quake hit the village of Quispillacta the hardest, forcing some 500 Quechua-speaking Indians in the Chuschi district of Peru's central Andes to spend the night outdoors, said Marcelino Condori, fire chief in Ayacucho, the provincial capital.

The frigid mountain region is 11,600 feet above sea level, Condori said.

The quake hit about 8:27 a.m. Sunday, 9 miles below ground and 225 miles southeast of Lima, the Geophysical Institute said.

About 250 adobe homes were damaged by the quake, and 150 dwellings caved in, Condori said. He said that 30 injured people were taken to a hospital in Ayacucho.

A medical team took off in a military plane from Lima on Monday morning with food, medicine and clothing, a Civil Defense spokesman said.