An estimated 80 percent of the homes were destroyed in Pisco, a city of 68,000 about 160 miles southeast of the capital, Lima. In the city's central plaza, the main Catholic church crumbled as the quake struck during a Mass commemorating the Assumption of Mary. As many as 200 people were in the church when it broke apart. Four days after the quake, Emergency Police crews pulled religious statues and anything salvageable from the what was left of the church.