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A powerful 7.8 magnitude   earthquake   struck Ecuador, killing 77 people and injuring nearly 600, the authorities said on Sunday. Vice President Jorge Glas said the quake hit at 6.58 p.m. on Saturday (11.58 GMT) near the northern coastal town of Muisne. When he earlier put the death toll at 41, Glas warned that the toll would "unfortunately rise in the coming hours". BBC reported widespread severe damage, with a bridge destroyed as far south as Guayaquil, about 300 km away from the capital Quito. A state of emergency was declared in six provinces. The earthquake, the country's worst in decades, shook buildings in Quito. There were a number of aftershocks, the biggest at 5.4. President Rafael Correa cut short his trip to Italy to return home. BBC quoted Glas as saying that at least 77 people had been killed and 588 injured. The quake was centred just off the country's northwest coast at a shallow depth of 19 km, Xinhua news agency quoted the the ...

At least two people were killed and over 30 injured as a powerful  earthquake measuring 6.8  on the Richter Scale rocked Manipur and other north eastern states early today. “Public and private properties have been damaged. The district administration is on the job to rescue trapped persons,” Inspector General of Police Clay Khongsai said. Khongsai said they were yet to receive any report from Tamenglong district. Meanwhile, social network giant Facebook has activated its ‘Mark As Safe’ feature that allows people in the affected area to mark themselves as out of any danger on the social media platform.  According to the regional seismological centre in Meghalaya, an earthquake of moderate intensity rocked India’s northeastern states and adjoining Myanmar, Bangladesh and Bhutan Monday morning. Latest News Mumbai, Delhi in world’s top-30 'super cities’     Our children must breathe cleaner city air: Modi   Metro’s phase III set to transfo...