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One person is injured and many buildings are damaged after a magnitude 5.1 earthquake strikes Muisne, Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
2023-06-27

One person is killed by a magnitude 5.7 earthquake in Ecuador.
2022-07-14

The United States government provides US$55 million in immediate humanitarian funding following the devastating earthquake in southern Afghanistan that killed at least 1,000 people.
2022-06-28

The Galápagos National Park in Ecuador confirms that a female tortoise discovered by scientists two years ago is a Fernandina Island Galápagos tortoise, following recent genetic tests performed at Yale University. Prior to this rediscovery, the species was thought to have been extinct for over a century.
2021-05-26

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits the Indian states of West Bengal and Assam, part of Meghalaya, and part of Bangladesh, causing damage to houses and buildings. Two people die from heart attacks, while ten others are wounded by the earthquake itself.
2021-04-28

A bus crash in southern Ecuador, leave 12 dead and 27 injured.
2018-09-18

People in Ecuador start burying their dead as the death toll from the earthquake passes 500.
2016-04-20

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off the coast of Ecuador, near the town of Muisne. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues a tsunami alert for coastal areas of Ecuador and Colombia. At least 42 people are reported dead with deaths reported in the cities of Manta, Guayaquil and Portoviejo.
2016-04-16

Ecuador evacuates several villages around the Cotopaxi volcano ahead of a possible eruption.
2015-08-15

Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny lodges a request to interrogate Julian Assange in his London refuge at the Ecuadorian consulate, saying that the reason for her change of mind is that the statute of limitations on several of the crimes of which Assange is suspected runs out in August 2015.
2015-03-13