Dozens had gathered at Vanessa Lavigne's yoga studio in Ayampe, Ecuador, when Saturday's deadly earthquake hit. "The whole studio just started shaking and everybody ran for the entrance way," said the ...

A group of Cape Breton University nursing students and instructors who visited Ecuador in February to gain broader professional experience are now trying to help those affected by this weekend's ...

Deep beneath the Pacific, one undersea fault has produced nearly identical magnitude 6 earthquakes every few years for decades. Researchers now think strange, water-soaked barrier zones inside the ...

Scientists have identified a mysterious earthquake braking mechanism in an underwater fault near Ecuador that systematically ...

Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean about 1,000 miles off the coast of Ecuador, a fault line on the seafloor has been ...

The most deadly earthquake to hit Ecuador in nearly two decades has left 238 dead, and leaders of the Andean nation cautioned on Sunday that the death toll could still rise. The magnitude-7.8 ...

Scientists have identified natural "brakes" within the Gofar transform fault, located deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean.

A mysterious underwater fault near Ecuador has been producing nearly identical magnitude 6 earthquakes every five to six ...

Ecuador is the biggest refugee-hosting country in Latin America. Its people have generously welcomed over 200,000 Colombian refugees and others in need of international protection, many of whom had ...