At least 15 aftershocks have been registered since Saturday, March 26, 2022 in the province of Esmeraldas.
QUITO At least one person died and another was injured after the fort magnitude 6 earthquake that shook the night of Saturday, March 26, 2022 in the province of emeralds, in northwestern Ecuador. According to official data, there have been more than 15 aftershocks, the last one of magnitude 5.5 on the Richter scale.
The latest report of National Risk and Emergency Management Service It specifies that, after an initial assessment of victims and damage, one person has been registered as having died of cardiac arrest, another has been injured, 356 have been affected, two houses have been destroyed and another 87 houses have been affected.
#EARTHQUAKE ID: igepn2022gaxb Revised 2022-03-27 15:51:11 TL Magnitude: 4.6 Depth: 10.59 km, 12.96 km from Atacames, Esmeraldas, Latitude: 0.9752 Longitude: -79.7992 Did you feel this earthquake? Report it! on https://t.co/5x7aClntGS pic.twitter.com/flDSdjmfvi
– Geophysical Institute (@IGecuador) March 27, 2022
The Geophysical Institute (IG) of the National Polytechnic School indicated that a last tremor occurred at 3:17 p.m. near Esmeraldas, at a depth of 6.81 kilometers.
The GI located this event at 0.92 degrees north latitude and 79.62 degrees west longitude, in a continental sector close to the epicenter of the main earthquake, which was located in the marine-coastal profile.
Shortly after the main tremor, another important telluric movement was recorded in the area, of magnitude 5.1, but more than a dozen with lower magnitudes have occurred.
The most important earthquakes, which have exceeded magnitude 5, have been felt in Quito, where the inhabitants have reported the movement of lamps and curtains.
The collision of the Nazca plate against the continental shelf, which covers most of the coastal profile of South America, generates the phenomenon known as subduction, which is what causes great seismic activity in the area. EFE
