2016 Ecuador earthquake

none hist April 2016 November 2024 2016 Ecuador earthquake 2016-04-16 23:58:37 us20005j32 608556966 PRESIDENTE DE ECUADOR RAFAEL CORREA AGRADECE ENORME GESTO DE SOLIDARIDAD DE GOBIERNO Y PUEBLO PERUANO (26688728105).jpg Severe damage caused by the earthquake. Ecuador 2016 4 16 18:58:37 ECT (UTC-5) 7.8 W Y 20.6 km on 0.371 N 79.940 W Thrust Ecuador, Colombia, Peru 8 1.11 m ftM 7.8 Earthquake and Tsunami (1.1 m) in Ecuador on 16 Apr 2016 23:58 UTC https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=EQ&eventid=1084565&episodeid=1125608 Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System 4.8 w y 1,034 as of 07:50 ECT (12:50 UTC) April 28Associated Press and Reuters The Hindu April 17, 2016 April 17, 2016 Live: After Ecuador quake, 135 aftershocks reported https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/Strong-7.8-quake-off-Ecuador-considerable-damage-reported/article60570065.ece 676 killed, 8 missing, 27,732 injuredSix months report Ecuador: Earthquake https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/MDREC0126m.docx.pdf November 2016 ReliefWeb The 2016 Ecuador earthquake occurred on April 16 at 18:58:37 ECT 23:58:37 UTC with a moment magnitude of 7.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). The very large thrust earthquake was centered approximately 27 km mi on from the towns of Muisne and Pedernales in a sparsely populated part of the country, and 170 km mi on from the capital Quito,M7.8 – 27 km SSE of Muisne, Ecuador April 17, 2016 United States Geological Survey https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005j32#general https://web.archive.org/web/20160418040908/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005j32#general April 18, 2016 live where it was felt strongly.Helsel Phil https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/7-8-magnitude-earthquake-hits-near-ecuador-s-coast-usgs-n557181 7.8-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Near Ecuador's Coast, 28 Dead NBC News April 16, 2016 The regions of Manta, Pedernales and Portoviejo accounted for over 75 percent of total casualties.C.A. EL UNIVERSO El Universo April 16, 2016 April 24, 2016 Secretaría National de Riesgos da lista actualizada de fallecidos en Manabí http://m.eluniverso.com/noticias/2016/04/18/nota/5532609/fiscalia-entrega-lista-cadaveres-entregados-86-manta-22-canoa-10/ April 24, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160424162808/http://m.eluniverso.com/noticias/2016/04/18/nota/5532609/fiscalia-entrega-lista-cadaveres-entregados-86-manta-22-canoa-10 dead Manta's central commercial shopping district, Tarqui, was completely destroyed.https://www.elcomercio.com/actualidad/tarqui-corazon-commercial-manta-luces.html Tarqui, corazón comercial de Manta, tiene las luces apagadas El COMERCIO April 24, 2016October 2023 InternetArchiveBot yes There was widespread damage across Manabí Province, and structures hundreds of kilometres from the epicenter collapsed. At least 676 people were killed and 27,732 people injured.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/western-ecuador-rattled-magnitude-6-7-earthquake-usgs-n575906 Ecuador counts over 400 quake deaths, damage in the billions Reutershttps://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/17/americas/ecuador-deadly-earthquake/ Ecuador earthquake: Death toll jumps to 272; more than 2,500 injured CNNhttps://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/MDREC0126m.docx.pdf Ecuador Red Cross President Rafael Correa declared a state of emergency; 13,500 military personnel and police officers were dispatched for recovery operations. Geology Ecuador lies above the destructive plate boundary where the Nazca plate is subducting beneath the South American plate. The convergence rate between the plates in Ecuador is 61 mm in on per year. The depth, location and focal mechanism of the earthquake are all consistent with rupture along the plate interface in the form of a megathrust earthquake. A major earthquake in 1906 ruptured the plate interface for at least 400 km immediately northeast of the 2016 event. Finite fault model released by USGS for this event shows a 140 by 145 km rupture area. A paper from Geophysical Research Letters found a particular zone of high slip inside a 80 by 60 km patch of the broken subduction interface located at depths of between 15 and 44 km. The rupture failed to propagate towards the trench; ceasing about 60 km away. A maximum slip of 2.5 m was estimated while the average slip across the rupture was 0.7 m.Mohammad Heidarzadeh Satoko Murotani Kenji Satake Tomohiro Takagawa Tatsuhiko Saito Fault size and depth extent of the Ecuador earthquake (Mw 7.8) of 16 April 2016 from teleseismic and tsunami data Geophysical Research Letters 2017 44 5 2211–2219 10.1002/2017GL072545 2017GeoRL..44.2211H 132506664 https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/14824 free The earthquake ruptured a part of the plate boundary that had previously ruptured in another magnitude 7.8 quake in 1942. The similar aftershock distribution and rupture characteristics suggest the 2016 event was a repeat of the earthquake in 1942. The 1942 earthquake marked the beginning of a supercycle of earthquakes re-rupturing the entire boundary previously broken during the large 1906 event. The last earthquake in the supercycle occurred in 1979. Another earthquake in 1958 also formed part of the supercycle.Lingling Ye Hiroo Kanamori Jean-Philippe Avouac Linyan Li Kwok Fai Cheung Thorne Lay The 16 April 2016, MW 7.8 (MS 7.5) Ecuador earthquake: A quasi-repeat of the 1942 MS 7.5 earthquake and partial re-rupture of the 1906 MS 8.6 Colombia–Ecuador earthquake Earth and Planetary Science Letters November 15, 2016 454 248–258 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.09.006 2016E&PSL.454..248Y free Earthquake April 2016 thumb|left|USGS shakemap for the event At 18:58 ECT on April 16, a 7.8 Mw earthquake struck the coast of Ecuador approximately 27 km mi on south-southeast of Muisne, in the province of Esmeraldas, at a depth of 20.6 km mi on. Tremors were felt in neighboring Colombia and Peru;USA Today Chris Woodyard Steph Solis April 16, 2016 April 16, 2016 77 killed, hundreds injured in Ecuador's 7.8 earthquake https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/04/16/ecuador-capital-sways-74-earthquake/83143472/ a clinic in Cali, Colombia, was evacuated as a precautionary measure. A tsunami alert was issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center for Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Fiji, Panama, and Peru.Avinesh Gopal Fiji Times April 17, 2016 April 17, 2016 Tsunami warning for Fiji http://fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=350066 April 20, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160420053442/http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=350066 dead This is the largest earthquake to strike Ecuador since the 1979 Tumaco earthquake.Reuters Phil Helsel Andrew Rudansky Gemma Dicasimirro NBC News April 16, 2016 April 16, 2016 77 Dead After 7.8-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Near Ecuador's Coast https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/7-8-magnitude-earthquake-hits-near-ecuador-s-coast-usgs-n557181 According to Mayor Gabriel Alcivar, much of the town of Pedernales, about 35 km to the south-southwest of the earthquake's epicenter, was leveled. In Guayaquil—approximately 300 km mi on from the epicenter—an overpass collapsed on a car, killing the driver.BBC News April 16, 2016 April 16, 2016 Ecuador earthquake of 7.8 magnitude kills dozens https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36065551 In Manta the control tower of the airport was severely damaged;http://abc7.com/news/78-magnitude-earthquake-hits-near-ecuador-according-to-usgs/1295047/ 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits near Ecuador, according to USGS Associated Press April 16, 2016 April 16, 2016 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160417073345/http://abc7.com/news/78-magnitude-earthquake-hits-near-ecuador-according-to-usgs/1295047/ April 17, 2016 an Air Force officer was injured and the airport closed. Six homes collapsed and many others lost power in the nation's capital city of Quito.Associated Press New York Post April 16, 2016 April 16, 2016 Massive Ecuador earthquake kills at least 41 https://nypost.com/2016/04/16/massive-earthquake-hits-ecuador/ The earthquake was presaged by a magnitude 4.8 foreshock eleven minutes before the main quake struck,M4.8 – 21 km N of Pedernales, Ecuador April 17, 2016 United States Geological Survey https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005j2w https://web.archive.org/web/20160418144333/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20005j2w April 18, 2016 live and followed by over fifty-five aftershocks in the first twenty-four hours.Shankar Sneha Ecuador Earthquake: Death Toll Soars, Aftershocks Reported April 17, 2016 International Business Times http://www.ibtimes.com/ecuador-earthquake-death-toll-soars-aftershocks-reported-2355035 https://web.archive.org/web/20160418173416/http://www.ibtimes.com/ecuador-earthquake-death-toll-soars-aftershocks-reported-2355035 April 18, 2016 live Casualties + Deaths by citizenship Citizenship Deaths Ecuador 651Menéndez Torres Teresa Secretaría de Gestión de Riesgos http://www.gestionderiesgos.gob.ec/informes-de-situacion-actual-terremoto-magnitud-7-8/ May 18, 2016 Gestión de Riesgos May 19, 2016 June 4, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160604074133/http://www.gestionderiesgos.gob.ec/informes-de-situacion-actual-terremoto-magnitud-7-8/ dead Colombia 11Actualización 7:10am #ColombianosEnEcuador: 11 fallecidos, 481 solicitudes de localización (258 ubicados y 223 por ubicar) https://twitter.com/CancilleriaCol/status/722760468763439104 April 20, 2016 Canada 4https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/2-more-canadians-killed-in-ecuador-quake/ 2 more Canadians killed in Ecuador quake CTV News April 19, 2016 Cuba 3 Dominican Republic 1https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36098633 Ecuador quake: Millionaires to be taxed more to pay for relief BBC News April 21, 2016 April 21, 2016 Italy 1https://www.thelocal.it/20160419/italian-businessman-among-413-dead-in-ecuador-earthquake Italian businessman among 525 dead in Ecuador quake The Local April 19, 2016 Ireland 1Gerry Moriarty George Jackson https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/tributes-to-irish-nun-killed-in-ecuador-earthquake-1.2614594 Tributes to Irish nun killed in Ecuador earthquake The Irish Times April 18, 2016 United States 1http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-ecuador-quake-idUKKCN0XE007 https://web.archive.org/web/20160419193010/http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-ecuador-quake-idUKKCN0XE007 dead April 19, 2016 Ecuador quake toll climbs over 400, damage put at billions of dollars Reuters April 18, 2016 Total 676 At least 676 people were killed and more than 16,600 others were injured in the earthquake. It was the worst natural disaster to hit Ecuador since the 1949 Ambato earthquake.Ecuador quake death toll of 350 expected to rise 'in a considerable way' http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-ecudaor-earthquake-20160418-story.html Chicago Tribune April 18, 2016 April 18, 2016 Over 300 fatalities occurred in the cities of Manta and Portoviejo, both of which are located in Manabí Province. President Rafael Correa stated that the reconstruction would cost "billions of dollars."https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-quake-idUSKCN0XE009 Ecuador quake toll rises to 413; rebuilding to cost billions April 18, 2016 Reuters April 18, 2016 thumb|left|400px|alt=Fatalities reported by media with time|Fatalities table The number of fatalities was estimated as several hundred within thirty minutes of the earthquake.https://www.icesfoundation.org/Pages/QlarmEventList.aspx Near Real-Time Earthquake Loss Estimates icesfoundation.org April 29, 2016 However, the media reported the number of fatalities as significantly lower than what actually happened and than what was estimated within thirty minutes as the figure of reported fatalities with time shows. The number of injuries reported by media also remained below the ultimate count and below the correct estimate within 30 minutes by QLARM as seen in the next figure. thumb|left|400px|alt=Numbers of injured reported by media with time|Injures table By April 24, the fatality count had reached 654, and 8,340 had been reported as injured.https://www.icesfoundation.org/Pages/CustomPage.aspx?ID=152 Ecuador Quake 2016 icesfoundation.org May 8, 2016 Estimates of fatalities are based on calculations of the damage to the built environment using the program QLARM.https://www.icesfoundation.org/Pages/CustomPage.aspx?ID=122 QLARM summary Wyss Max January 1, 2016 ICES Foundation May 7, 2016 Within minutes of an earthquake only its epicenter is known, not the extent of its rupture. The USGS shake map for this event shown on this page depicts the extent of the rupture area as a rectangle. With the length of the rupture as outlined by the aftershocks, a map of the likely mean damage by the settlement can be calculated. This map takes into account what intensities have been reported to the USGS for this earthquake. The numbers of fatalities and injured calculated theoretically, based on the damage map shown here, agrees well with the reported numbers. The extent of the rupture can sometimes be known from aftershocks during the few hours following the main shock. In that case, maps of the intensity of shaking expected in each settlement may be calculated as in the figure below at the left for the 2016 Ecuador earthquake. Based on this ground motion, the mean damage expected in each settlement is then calculated. These maps allow first responders to target heavily damaged area. thumb|left|420px|alt=Intensity by settlements|Map of Ecuador zone thumb|right|420px|alt=Intensity by settlements|Map of Ecuador zone Large cities tend to have buildings more resistant to shaking than villages, therefore the damage is less for city dwellers than for villagers, on average. In Colombia, near the city of Cali, one miner died as a result of the earthquake, becoming the only reported death outside of Ecuador.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-quake-idUSKCN0XE009 Minero muere atrapado en Colombia por terremoto que sacudió Ecuador April 19, 2016 Ecuavisa April 22, 2016 Aftermath thumb|left|The collapsed overpass in Guayaquil In response to the earthquake, a state of emergency was declared throughout the country and the national guard was mobilized to assist in rescue and relief efforts.December 2020 Approximately 10,000 military personnel and 3,500 police officers were deployed. President Rafael Correa cut his trip to Italy short in order to return to Ecuador. Hydroelectric dams and oil pipelines were shut down as a precautionary measure. On April 17 the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters was activated by UNITAR/UNOSAT on behalf of UN OCHA, thus providing for the charitable and humanitarian re-tasking of satellite assets.https://www.disasterscharter.org/web/guest/activations/-/article/earthquake-in-ecuador Latest Activation: Earthquake in Ecuador International Charter on Space and Major Disasters April 17, 2016 May 6, 2016 On April 20, a 6.1–6.2 magnitude aftershock struck 15 miles west of Muisne around 3:30am, local time.Ana Isabel Martinez Julia Symmes Cobb https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-quake-coast-idUSKCN0XH0S2 Ecuador disaster toll tops 500, big new quake shakes coast April 20, 2016 Reuters April 20, 2016 The quake had a depth of about 9 miles.https://weather.com/safety/earthquake/news/ecuador-earthquake-aftershock Earthquake Safety and Preparedness April 20, 2016 The Weather Channel José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport in Guayaquil was also closed due to communication issues.Associated Press CBS News April 16, 2016 April 16, 2016 7.8-magnitude earthquake kills dozens in Ecuador https://www.cbsnews.com/news/7-8-magnitude-quake-hits-off-coast-of-ecuador/ A UNICEF representative reported that the government is considering relocating "one or two" towns in the aftermath of the earthquake. There were also concerns about the Zika virus outbreak and the risk of dengue fever for people displaced by the quake.Ireland Nicole Ecuador earthquake destruction could force relocation of towns, UNICEF says https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ecuador-earthquake-aid-agency-relief-efforts-1.3545551 April 21, 2016 CBC News April 21, 2016 Days after the earthquake, the country experienced difficulties distributing food and water to those in need, including the over 26 thousand survivors relocated to shelters. President Correa acknowledged that the poor infrastructure of the country might be to blame.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/21/ecuador-earthquake-survivors-food-shortages-water-medical-aid Earthquake survivors in Ecuador struggle without food and basic aid Reuters April 21, 2016 The Guardian 0261-3077 April 29, 2016 The President estimated the damage at $3 billion, and has obtained credit from the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and other sources, anticipated to reach a total of $2 billion; national sales tax has been raised as have income taxes on Ecuadorians.Sreenivasan Hari Ecuador looks to rebuild after devastating earthquake https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ecuador-looks-to-pick-up-pieces-and-rebuild-after-devastating-earthquake PBS Newshour July 7, 2016 May 26, 2016 On 30 June 2025, former vice president Jorge Glas was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment for embezzling public funds related to recovery efforts following the earthquake.Former Ecuadorian vice president detained in embassy raid gets 13 years in prison https://apnews.com/article/ecuador-vice-president-jorge-glas-prison-embassy-079a390ee3ce44c739e5ceccd85b5aad AP News 1 July 2025 See also List of earthquakes in 2016 List of earthquakes in Ecuador Ecuador Colombia Earth sciences References External links 608556966 eq-2016-000035-ecu expanded Colombia Earth sciences Ecuador Category:2016 earthquakes Category:2016 in Colombia Category:2016 disasters in Ecuador Category:2016 in Peru Category:Earthquakes in Colombia Category:Earthquakes in Ecuador Category:Earthquakes in Peru Category:Esmeraldas Province Category:April 2016 in South America Category:Tsunamis in Ecuador