88 homes with partial damage and one with greater damage in the Chamera sector, is the current result of the evaluations following the strong earthquake of magnitude 6.0 that shook the city of Esmeraldas, almost at midnight yesterday.
At the time of this publication, the National Service for Risk and Emergency Management counted 356 people affected, five public goods affected, one person injured and one person died of cardiac arrest).
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As part of the response actions carried out by the institutions of the National Decentralized Risk Management System, in the field of Health and Pre-hospital Care, tents were installed to protect newborns from Hospital Delfina Torres during the time of evacuation.
The Ministry of Health carries out the first evaluations and indicates that the Delfina Torres Hospital reports damage to the ceiling in several areas, damage to the ceramic walls, in the first level units there are no damages.
???? The Ministry of Health confirms damage to masonry at the Delfina Torres hospital in #Esmeraldasbehind the #earthquake of 6. Patients and staff were taken to other areas of the nursing home. pic.twitter.com/xyoUMG8Bi0
– Tere Menéndez (@ TMT30_) March 27, 2022
With regard to Essential Basic Services, all roads in the province are enabled, with the exception of the Viche-Quinindé E road. [20] which is partially enabled due to undermining in Los Vergeles, an event that occurred before the earthquakes.
There was a power outage in the Esmeraldas and Atacames cantons, at the moment they are restored. In Atacames, the residents evacuated to safe areas in case of possible followingshocks.
Regarding Temporary Accommodation and Humanitarian Assistance, Civil Protection Volunteers were activated in the affected cantons to collect information.
Several strong followingshocks have occurred in the minutes following the earthquake that occurred at 11:28 p.m. and its epicenter was located just 11 kilometers south of the city of Esmeraldas. The shock spread panic and led many people to leave their homes following several parts of the city went without electricity.
This telluric movement was felt in eleven of the twenty-four provinces that make up Ecuador, with a strong intensity in Esmeraldas and moderate in Pichincha, where the capital Quito is located, and as well as in Manabí, Cotopaxi and Santo Domingo, according to the National Service of Risk and Emergency Management (SNGRE).
???? ECU911 cameras from #Esmeraldas They recorded the moments of #earthquake Magnitude 6.0 tonight.
So far 3 tremors have been recorded in that province tonight. pic.twitter.com/yroH31Ay9M
— ???????? CUPSFIRE (#StayHome ????) (@Cupsfire_gye) March 27, 2022
According to the Geophysical Institute of the National Polytechnic School, at least two important followingshocks were recorded in the two hours following the first telluric movement, the most important of which was 5.1 magnitude on the Richter scale, at 00:53 .
Given this situation, the president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, indicated that both the national and provincial authorities are evaluating the damage caused by this mishap and explained that “inter-institutional teams are in the territory to attend to any need.”
