Urgent: 5.3-magnitude quake hits Ecuador -- GFZ-Xinhua

Urgent: 5.3-magnitude quake hits Ecuador -- GFZ

Source: Xinhua

Editor: huaxia

2025-09-03 23:06:15

BEIJING, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted Ecuador at 1456 GMT on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said.

The epicenter, with a depth of 145.2 km, was initially determined to be at 1.54 degrees south latitude and 77.79 degrees west longitude.