Earthquake update.Earthquake update Two countries on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean sufferedlarge earthquakes this month. On the evening of March 5, Ecuador was hit by a foreshock ofmagnitude 6.1, followed a couple of hours later by a 6.8 quake lasting more than 30 seconds, according to the National Earthquake Information Center in Boulder, Colo. The quake's epicenter was 50 miles east of Quito Quito (kē`tō), city (1990 pop. 1,100,847), N central Ecuador, capital of Ecuador and of Pichincha prov. After Guayaquil it is Ecuador's largest city. The setting of Quito is visually splendid: It lies at the foot of the Pichincha volcano in the hollow of a gently sloping, fertile valley.. The quakes occurred during the rainy season, shaking loosefierce mudslides that buried villages in the rugged, hilly area. According to a spokesperson for the Embassy of Ecuador in Washington, D.C., at least 1,000 people are known dead and more bodies are expected to be discovered when rescue workers reach the more remote areas. A March 18 Japanese quake, magnitude 6.4, did much lessdamage. According to the National Earthquake Information Center A division within the IS department that supports end-user computing. It is responsible for training users in applications and solving related personal computer problems. The term was widely used when personal computers exploded onto the scene in the 1980s. Today, the term may refer to any type of information source, which is precisely what it sounds like., it was centered in the water about 25 miles off the east coast of the island of Kyushu Kyushu (ky  `sh), island (1990 pop. 13,064,955), c.13,760 sq mi (35,640 sq km), S Japan. It is the third largest, southernmost, and most densely populated of the major islands of Japan., and caused one death.
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