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Powerful earthquake kills at least 28 in Ecuador

QUITO- A powerful, 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook Ecuador's central coast on Saturday, killing at least 28 people and spreading panic hundreds of miles away as it collapsed homes and buckled a major overpass.

 

The US Geological Survey said the shallow quake, the strongest in decades to hit Ecuador, was centered 16 miles south-southeast of Muisne, a sparsely populated area of fishing ports that's popular with tourists.

 

Vice President Jorge Glas said in a televised address that there were initial reports of 28 dead in the cities of Manta, Portoviejo and Guayaquil - all several hundred kilometers (miles) from where the quake struck shortly after nightfall. The death toll is likely to rise as reports from the worst-hit areas come in.

 


פרסום ראשון: 04.17.16, 08:03