Just 7 minutes ago, a 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck near Volcan Chimborazo, Cantón Esmeraldas, Provincia de Esmeraldas, Ecuador. The tremor was recorded early morning on Friday 15 January 2021 at 5:35 am local time, at a very shallow depth of 5 km below the surface.
The event was filed by the Institute of Geophysics of the National Polytechnic School in Quito (IGEPN), the first seismological agency to report it.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Volcan Chimborazo (pop. 165,200) located 36 km from the epicenter.
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Earthquake data: 
(North Pacific Ocean, Ecuador)