The provisional toll of the 6.1 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale recorded yesterday afternoon at 17.30 local time is of one death, various material damage of not serious entity, and much fear in the population of the whole country. in southern Ecuador .
The earthquake had its epicenter a few kilometers from the town of Simón Bolívar, in the province of Guayas .
The only victim is a 16-year-old young man hit by an electric shock produced by a high voltage cable dropped to the ground in the area of the epicenter.
Ecuadorian media confirmed that the earth shook practically all over Ecuador, from Guayaquil to Quito.
Esteban Hernández, seismologist at the Geophysical Institute, explained to the newspaper Expreso that, despite its magnitude, the earthquake did not have a heavy death toll or damage "due to the depth of its hypocenter, almost 60 kilometers".
(Unioneonline / vl)
