A powerful earthquake struck eastern Ecuador early Friday, sending tremors for miles through a sparsely populated area and into neighboring Peru and Colombia. The quake hit at an intermediate depth of around 82 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
“The preliminary reports of the first earthquakes near Macas do not indicate major damages,” Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno said via Twitter. He added that the effects were felt in a large swath of the country, and that regional emergency centers had been activated in case they’re needed.
The earthquake struck at 5:17 a.m. local time (Japan time Feb 22, 7:17pm). Its epicenter was 71 miles east-southeast of Palora, far inland and distant from Ecuador’s main highways that run along its mountain ranges.
Source: National Public Radio Inc. , Yahoo! Japan
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