President Guillermo Lasso tweeted a message asking residents to remain calm.
A strong earthquake shook southern Ecuador and northern Peru on Saturday, killing at least a dozen people, trapping others under rubble, and sending rescue teams out into streets littered with debris and fallen power lines.
Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso in a televised address to the nation said the earthquake killed 12 people. In the coastal state of El Oro, three people died and several were trapped under rubble, the agency reported. In the community of Machala, a two-story home collapsed before people could evacuate, a pier gave way and a building's walls cracked, trapping an unknown number of people.
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