Two earthquakes hit Peru, Ecuador with no one hurt
Two earthquakes on Tuesday registering more than five degrees on the Richter scale shook the central Ecuador city of Puyo and Peru's Amazonas province, which borders Ecuador, authorities from the two nations said on Tuesday.

In Ecuador, the earthquake registered 5.1 degrees, and stuck inthe morning, the Geophysics Institute of the Polytechnic School in Ecuador's capital Quito said.

The epicenter was nearly 200 km deep in the east of Ecuador, the Institute added.

The Peru quake registered 5.2 degrees, and its epicenter was 207 km north of Amazonas capital Santa Maria de Nieva, 160 km deep.

There have been not reports of injuries, even though Peruvians were worried because a 6.9 degree quake on Sept. 25, 2005 had caused serious damage.

Peru, which is part of the so-called Ring of Fire in the western Pacific Ocean, experiences over 100 earth tremors each year which are more than five degrees on the Richter scale.