August 12, 2010 Earthquake: Manta, Guayaquil, Loja, Ecuador
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Manta, Guayaquil, Loja, Ecuador on August 12, 2010 at 11:54:15 UTC, 207 km below the surface.
Map
Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Date
- August 12, 2010
- Time
- 11:54:15 UTC
- Place
- Manta, Guayaquil, Loja, Ecuador
- Magnitude
- 7.1 (Mw)
- Focal depth
- 207 km (129 mi)
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 1.266° S, 77.306° W
- Country
- Ecuador
The toll
- Damage
- Limited (under about $1 million)
Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
Slight damage at Manta, Guayaquil and Loja. Felt (V) at Guayaquil and Santo Domingo; (IV) at Cuenca, Loja, Machala, Manta and Samborondon; (III) at Ibarra and Quito; (II) at
Ambato. Felt (III) at Iquitos, Peru. Felt throughout
Ecuador and in much of northern Peru as far south as
Imperial. Felt at Bogota and Cali, Colombia and at
Maracaibo, Venezuela. (reference #1053)
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- February 4, 1797, Riobamba, Quito, Cuzco, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
- June 20, 1698, Tungurahua,cotopaxi,chimborazo, Ecuador
- August 5, 1949, Tungurahua, Ecuador
- February 1640, Ecuador
- March 6, 1987, Napo Province, Quito, Tulcan, Ecuador
- February 22, 1757, Cotopaxi,tungurahua, Latacunga, Ecuador
- March 3, 1924, Ecuador
- March 28, 1996, Cotopaxi, Pastaza, Tungurahua, Ambato, Ecuador
- July 30, 1960, Ecuador
- August 11, 1990, Pamasqui, Quito, Ecuador
- August 12, 2014, Quito, Ecuador
- September 22, 1987, Ambato, Latacunga, Riobamba, Ecuador
- October 3, 1995, Quito, Ecuador
- January 31, 2018, Pastaza, Ecuador
- February 22, 2019, Azuay, Manabi, Morona Sant., Peru, Ecuador
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Sources
Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 9770.