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The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29, 2025 is now among the top 10 strongest ...

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A powerful 6.8 earthquake shook the northwestern Ecuador province of Esmeraldas on Friday morning and injured at least 20 people, the government has said. The tremor struck at 6:44 am local time ...

QUITO, Ecuador — A strong 6.3 earthquake off Ecuador's Pacific coast shook the northern part of the country Friday, with some initial reports of some damages to houses. No injuries were reported.

PEDERNALES, Ecuador (AP) – The strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast, sending the Andean nation into a state of emergency.

The earthquake appeared to be the strongest since the 9.0 magnitude earthquake off Japan in March 2011 that caused a massive ...

Ecuador is particularly prone to earthquakes. In 2016, a quake centered farther north on the Pacific Coast in a more sparsely populated area of the country killed more than 600 people.

Gomez hails from Quito, Ecuador, the capital city of a country that was ravaged April 16 by its worst earthquake since 1949. Overpasses buckled, malls collapsed, houses crumbled, lives were lost.