Earthquake!!!!

The last two blog postings were ¨business as usual¨postings. That all came to an end at about 10:10 last night. We woke up to the crashing of breaking glass and some rumbling around outside. MJ jumped out of bed. I stayed laying propped up on my arm. I could have sworen I felt the bed move. Then I felt it again and yet again. In the meanwhile, an attempt to discover what broke was underway.
We discovered a glass jar had fallen from a shelf above the bathroom sink. It struck the sink breaking a part of it off. Going outside, we discovered a huge (20 gallon) metal cooking pot that had been propped along the wall had fallen over and rolled a bit. The son of our landlady came out of their house.
All in all we discovered we felt our first earthquake. The center was located on the Pacific side of Ecuador. The tremmers came all the way through the Andes and shock us up a bit. No damage here to speak of, however. We learned today that the quake center was about 50 miles down in the earth. It was measured at 6.7. This was also the second quake in South America in the last two days. We did not feel the first one at all.
We are assured that these quakes will have little if anything to do with activating the several volcanoes in our part of Ecuador. Hopefully, they know what they are talking about. Also, most people here have felt earthquakes before. Some remembered a broken oil pipeline several years ago in these parts.
For those of you who get on our case to publish more pictures, I will remind you that taking any kind of pictures was the last thing on my mind at 10:10 last night. OK, maybe a picture of a broken sink can be managed in the near future.