At least One person died in the 6.1 magnitude earthquake. It shook the coastal region of Ecuador, very close to the port city of Guayaquil, on Thursday, according to the National Risk and Emergency Management Service. The agency announced at a press conference that it was reported A person deceased with electric discharge as a result of falling cables It is located in the coastal province of Guayas, in the municipality of Simón Bolívar, very close to the epicenter. Likewise, three homes were affected, one in the neighboring municipality of Samborondon and two in the provincial capital, Guayaquil.
A health center in the city of Guaranda, capital of the Andes state of Bolívar, and three others in Guayaquil were also affected by the earthquake. The National Risk and Emergency Management Service said the tremor was felt in 17 of Ecuador’s 24 provinces, but there were reports that the event also shook parts of northern Peru.
After the earthquake, which was felt strongly in the capital of the country, Quito, the Emergency Operations Committee (COE) of the state of Guayas met in the presence of President Guillermo Lasso. “I call for calm and information through official channels. We will take care of all families in need,” Lasso wrote on his account.
The National Polytechnic School Geophysics Institute (IG) reported that the tremor occurred at 17:30 local time (22:30 GMT), at a depth of 58 kilometers, in the subducting area of the Nasca plate under the South American continent. shelf. The epicenter of the telluric movement was located at latitude 2.04 degrees south and longitude 79.87 degrees west, very close to Samborondón. Ecuadorian Navy Institution of Oceanography, natural phenomenon did not meet the required specifications to generate an eventual tsunami.
Parallel to the coast of South America is the so-called subduction zone, where tectonic plates collide and are often the source of high seismic activity. Ecuador is also located in the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, where 85% of the world’s seismic activity occurs, which borders the ocean and affects the coastal regions of the Americas and Asia and Oceania.