{"id":3757,"date":"2023-03-20T05:17:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T16:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3757"},"modified":"2023-03-20T05:17:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T16:17:20","slug":"ecuador-earthquake-kills-at-least-15-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3757","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador earthquake kills at least 15 people"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At least 15 people have died and more than 400 are injured after a 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador’s southern coast.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Buildings were damaged in several cities when the earthquake hit at around midday local time (17:00 GMT).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The southern province of El Oro was the worst affected and 12 people died there, authorities said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Northern Peru felt the quake and a 14-year-old girl died in Tumbes, a border province, when her home collapsed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In Ecuador, Machala and Cuenca were among the cities that suffered damage to buildings and vehicles, as emergency services rushed to help people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The epicentre was near Balao, about 80km (50 miles) from Ecuador’s second-largest city, Guayaquil, where about three million people live.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“We ran from the house,” Machala resident Exon Tobar told the BBC. “The ground – it was a very powerful explosion – it made it shake and it made the electric cables, the windows, and everything move. People were in the streets praying because it didn’t stop.”<\/p>\n

SOURCE BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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