A 7.5-magnitude earthquake rocked Ecuador | This is not reported …

A magnitude 7.5 earthquake rocked Ecuador without any reports of casualties or property damage to date, the country's authorities said. The earthquake occurred at 05.17 localities at a depth of 107.27 km, in the Amazonian province of Morona Santiago (southeast and on the border with Peru), according to the Institute of Geophysics from the country.

The first earthquake was followed by two others, one in the same region and the other in the coastal province of Guayas (southwest). The second jolt to Morona Santiago, with a magnitude of 6.06, occurred at 5:20 local time.

"We have not yet had any personal bad luck reported more than splinters of glbad," said Tarcisio Ojeda, Mayor of Macas, capital of Morona Santiago, at ECTV. The president of the country, Lenin Moreno, said on his Twitter account that "preliminary reports on the first earthquakes near Macas do not indicate any significant damage". Local Emergency Operations Committees have been activated to identify potential effects.

Twenty minutes after the second earthquake, a telluric movement of magnitude 5.9 was produced in Guayas, at a depth of 34 km. According to Moreno, this earthquake has not caused casualties or serious damage.

The Marine Institute of Ocean (Inocar) has informed through its Twitter account that none of the earthquakes met the conditions necessary to generate a tsunami.

Movements in the Amazon were also felt in the Andean provinces of Tungurahua, Cotopaxi and Pichincha, according to the Institute of Geophysics.

In April 2016, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake devastated the coastal provinces of Manabi and Esmeraldas (west), killing 673 people. The losses due to the powerful earthquake amounted to more than 3000 million dollars.