
Soldiers move an injured person onto a military airplane at an air base in Manta on Tuesday, April 19. A magnitude-7.8 quake struck off Ecuador's central coast on Saturday, April 16, flattening buildings and buckling highways. It's the deadliest quake to strike the South American country in decades.


A relative kisses a photo of Kexly Valentino attached to her coffin in Montecristi on April 19. Kexly and her mother and brother died in the quake.

Rescuers search for survivors in Manta on April 19.

Maria Victoria, 89, is comforted by her daughter Mariana in Estancia Las Palmas on April 19. The elderly woman was injured when a column fell on her.

A Manta family wakes up April 19 after sleeping outside their home destroyed in the quake.

Firefighters remove a body from a destroyed building in Portoviejo on Monday, April 18.

A truck moves the belongings of a family from Pedernales to Jama over a road destroyed in the quake on April 18.

Pallbearers carry a coffin to a cemetery as relatives mourn the loss of loved ones in Portoviejo on April 18.

A man, his home destroyed by the earthquake, sleeps in a boat docked along the shore in La Chorrera on April 18.

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa kisses a group of children after meeting with local authorities at the emergency center in Portoviejo on Sunday, April 17.

Rescue workers search the rubble of a collapsed building for victims in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 17.

Volunteers remove a body from a destroyed house in Pedernales, Ecuador, on April 17.

Vehicles from a car dealership hang on a precipice caused by an earthquake induced landslide in Portoviejo, Ecuador, on April 17.

People walk among the debris of a collapsed building in Pedernales, Ecuador, on April 17.

A woman cries as she stands next to a destroyed house in Pedernales, Ecuador, April 17.

People make their way through debris from a collapsed building in Pedernales, Ecuador, on April 17.

A building has collapsed in Portoviejo on April 17.

People search through the rubble of destroyed homes in Pedernales on April 17.

A destroyed vehicle lies under debris in Portoviejo on April 17.

A man takes in the damage in Portoviejo on April 17.

A rescue worker searches a destroyed house in Pedernales on April 17.

Residents remain on the streets for fear of aftershocks in Pedernales on April 17.

Rescue workers try to pull out survivors trapped in a collapsed building in Manta on April 17.

Police check out a car crushed under a collapsed overpass in Guayaquil.

Rescue workers stand near a destroyed car in Guayaquil.

Residents walk on a street amid destroyed buildings in Guayaquil on April 16.

An hotel leans after the earthquake in Manta on April 16.

Damage is seen inside a store in Guayaquil on April 16.