The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reports that an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 has struck close to the Ecuadorian coast.
According to EMSC, the quake was 23 kilometers (14.29 miles) deep.
Buildings are clearly visible damage from an earthquake, according to images shared online. No casualties were immediately reported.
earthquakes in the past
Ecuador’s history of seismic disasters is complex and agonizing.
At least 14 people were killed and homes, schools, and medical facilities destroyed in a quake that erupted in northern Peru and southern Ecuador in 2013 and left them in critical condition.
At least 77 people were killed and more than 500 others were hurt in Ecuador’s strongest earthquake, magnitude 7.8, in 2016 after a devastating earthquake of magnitude 7.8, which hit the country’s hardest since 1979.
The nation is located along the volatile seismic and vulcanic “Ring of Fire” in the Pacific, which circles the ocean.
Ecuador lies atop the boundary between the massive tectonic plates of South America and Nazca, which both grind against one another and move at a rate of 65 millimeters (2. 5 inches) annually.
Source: Aljazeera
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