Powerful 7.5 quake strikes Peru-Ecuador border region, no tsunami warning
The quake’s epicentre was in a sparsely populated area 224 km (140 miles) east-southeast of Ambato, Ecuador, at a depth of 132 km. The USGS’s initial reading had assessed the quake, which occurred at 5:17 am (1017 GMT), at magnitude 7.7. …read more
