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Rescuers Dig Out Survivors After Ecuador Quake Kills 238

DOLORES OCHOA
ALLEN PANCHANA
Associated Press
PEDERNALES, Ecuador (AP)
— Rescuers pulled survivors
from rubble Sunday after
the strongest earthquake
to hit Ecuador in decades
flattened buildings and
buckled highways along its
Pacific coast. Officials said
the quake killed at least
238 people and injured
more than 1,500.
The magnitude-7.8 quake,
the strongest to hit the
country since 1979, was

A police officer stands on debris, next to buildings destroyed by an earthquake in Pedernales, Ecuador, Sunday, April 17, 2016.
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.

                                                                                                                                                       (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

centered on Ecuador’s       capital.                     the damage occurred in         the quake, which struck
sparsely populated fishing  Vice President Jorge Glas    the cities of Manta, Portovi-  shortly after nightfall Satur-
ports and tourist beaches,  said at a somber news con-   ejo and Guayaquil — all        day.
105 miles (170 kilometers)  ference that the death toll  several hundred kilometers
northwest of Quito, the     was likely to rise. Much of  (miles) from the center of         Continued on page 2