(BBC) — At least 15 people have died and more than 400 are injured after a 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador’s southern coast.
Northern Peru felt the quake and a 14-year-old girl died in Tumbes, a border province, when her home collapsed.
The epicentre was near Balao, about 80km (50 miles) from Ecuador’s second-largest city, Guayaquil, where about three million people live.
President Guillermo Lasso asked Ecuadoreans to remain calm as officials assess the damage.
He also visited a hospital in the city of Machala to meet with some of the injured people.
The government said more than 250 injured people were treated in the town of Pasaje, in El Oro, and nearly all of them were eventually discharged.
Several roads have been blocked by landslides, while several homes, educational buildings and health centres have been damaged, authorities said.
One person was reported killed in the city of Cuenca, in Azuay province, after a wall collapsed onto their car, while three people died when a security camera tower came down on Jambelí Island, in El Oro province.
This is the strongest quake to hit Ecuador since 2016, when nearly 700 people died and thousands were injured.
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