A strong earthquake shook southern Ecuador and northern Peru on Saturday, killing at least a dozen people, trapping others under rubble and sending rescue teams out into streets littered with debris and fallen power lines.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported an earthquake with a magnitude of about 6.8 that was centred just off the Pacific Coast, about 80 kilometres south of Guayaquil, Ecuador’s second-largest city.
Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso told reporters the earthquake that killed 12 people had “without a doubt … generated alarm in the population.” In a Twitter post, he also asked people to remain calm.
Risk Management Secretary Cristian Torres said in
