Earthquake — Ecuador: Napo Province, Quito, Tulcan

When

6 Mar 1987

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.2

Where

Ecuador

Coordinates

0.08° N, 77.78° W

Deaths

5000

Damage musd

1500

Depth km

10

Natural disaster in Ecuador

The 1987 Ecuador earthquakes occurred over a six-hour period on March 6, 1987. The sequence of shocks measured 6.7, 7.1, and 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale. The main shock had a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The earthquakes were centered in Napo Province in northeast Ecuador; the epicenters were on the eastern slopes of the Andes, about 75 km ENE of Quito and 25 km north of Reventador Volcano.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A 6.9 magnitude earthquake occurs in Napo Province in northeast Ecuador, killing roughly 1,000 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “dos terremotos de 6.7 y 7.1 sacudieron la zona nororiental del Ecuador, dejando un saldo de 1000 muertos y 60 000 damnificados”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page