Ecuador Powerful Earthquake Kills 77, More Than 570 Injured
Ecuador Powerful Earthquake Kills 77, More Than 570 Injured QUITO, Ecuador – 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. As rescue workers rushed in, officials said Sunday at least 77 people were killed, over 570 injured and the damage stretched for hundreds of miles to the capital and other major cities. Videos Earthquake in Ecuador sparsely populated fishing port and tourist beach measuring 7.8 on the 0.105 miles of Quito, the capital of the north-west of the epicenter. Vice President George Glas number of dead as early as Sunday at a press conference has been updated. Where the quake struck shortly after dark each several hundred miles - before he believes, Portoviejo and said that there were deaths in the cities of Guayaquil. The quake, the strongest since 1979 to hit Ecuador and access to the disaster are...