LIMA - At least 300 miners are believed to be trapped in an underground gold mine after a powerful earthquake shook southern Peru last night, officials said.
Colonel Lucio Corpuera, a civil defence official in Lima, said the miners were trapped inside a mine where 800 people normally work 310 miles south of the capital. The quake, measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale, killed seven people and injured 500 in the region of Nazca.