QUITO/LIMA—A deep magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck the Peru-Ecuador border region early on Friday morning, Feb. 22, the U.S. Geological Survey said, causing tremors that the Ecuadorian president said were felt around the country.
The quake’s epicenter was in a sparsely populated area 140 miles (224 kilometers) east-southeast of Ambato, Ecuador, at a depth of 82 miles (132 kilometers). The USGS’s initial reading assessed the quake, which occurred at 5:17 a.m. local time (10:17 GMT), at magnitude 7.7.
