'Significant casualties likely': Magnitude 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador

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'Significant casualties likely': Magnitude 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador
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At least 13 people have died after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck southern Ecuador on Saturday. The Bureau of Meteorology has stated that there is no risk of a tsunami hitting Australia as a result of the natural disaster. DETAILS: 9News

At least 13 people died after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck southern Ecuador on Saturday afternoon, according to government officials.

The Marine Museum of Puerto Bolivar, detached from the dock, is partially inundated in water after an earthquake that shook Machala, Ecuador, Saturday, March 18, 2023. In an earlier statement, authorities said the person in Azuay was killed when a wall collapsed onto a car and that at least three of the victims in El Oro died when a security camera tower came down.

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