Year: 2019

Magnitude 7.5 Earthquake Hits Peru-Ecuador Border Region

Magnitude 7.5 Earthquake Hits Peru-Ecuador Border Region

A deep magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck the Peru-Ecuador border region early on Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said, causing tremors that the Ecuadorian president said were felt around the country. The quake’s epicenter was in a sparsely populated area 224 km (140 miles) east-southeast of Ambato, Ecuador, at a depth