Power Outage As Earthquake Hits Ecuador Capital

July 1, (THEWILL)- A magnitude 4.2 earthquake shook Ecuador’s capital, Quito, on Monday, cutting off power in some neighbourhoods.

A statement by the country’s geophysical Institute, said the epicentre of the quake, which struck at a depth of nine kilometres (5.6 miles), was located 8.49 km from Quito. It added that no immediate casualties or significant damage occurred.

Footage released by Ecuador’s emergency services department showed residents ran out of their homes into the streets when the tremor struck just after midnight local time.

“Some neighbourhoods of the capital Quito were plunged into an electricity blackout” Quito mayor, Pabel Munoz, said in a post on X.

“The airport, metro, landfills, water production plants and landfills” suffered no significant damage”, he added.

The quake was also felt strongly in at least two provinces neighbouring Pichincha, where the capital is located, according to the Geophysical Institute.