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The most damaging earthquakes to affect Ecuador are those associated with faulting within the South American plate, such as the 1949 Ambato earthquake. Earthquakes within the downgoing Nazca plate, such as the M w 7.1 event of August 2010, are generally too deep to cause significant damage in Ecuador although they are felt over a wide area. [3]
Earthquake damage to the Embassy of Ecuador in an alley at Euclid Street NW and University Place NW in Washington, D.C. The alley was closed off. An occupant of the building, who was in the alley at the time, didn't realize there was an earthquake and thought a construction crew was knocking down the building. Date: 23 August 2011, 03:11:04: Source
1698 Ambato earthquake; 1797 Riobamba earthquake; 1868 Ecuador earthquakes; 1942 Ecuador earthquake; 1949 Ambato earthquake; 1953 Tumbes earthquake; 1958 Ecuador–Colombia earthquake; 1970 Peru–Ecuador earthquake; 1987 Ecuador earthquakes; 1998 Bahía de Caráquez earthquake; 2014 Ecuador earthquake; 2016 Ecuador earthquake; 2019 Peru earthquake
A strong magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off the coast of Ecuador late on Saturday the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
Magnitude 6.8 quake was centered just off the Pacific Coast, about 50 miles south of Guayaquil, Ecuador’s second-largest city Earthquake rocks Ecuador killing at least 15 and causing widespread ...
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador’s Guayas province on Thursday evening, July 14, shaking homes and other structures, authorities said.Ecuador’s Risk and Emergency Management Service ...
2016 disasters in Ecuador (2 P) This page was last edited on 11 January 2023, at 09:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
This is a list of major earthquakes by the dollar value of property (public and private) losses directly attributable to the earthquake. Only earthquakes that have caused damage over US$1 billion, adjusted for inflation, are listed here.