At least 77 people are killed and hundreds injured after powerful 7.8 earthquake strikes off the central coast of Ecuador, with tremors felt 300 miles away in Colombia

Very sad for all these places that are suffering the Ring of Fire, it is very active with more than 6 big earthquakes in a week which normally would lead to an even bigger one.

Where next ?

And there shall be great earthquakes...

that's 5 earthquakes this week. More to follow.

#PrayForEdudoor

This is terrible, my husband is Ecuadorean and we are flying out there on Wednesday for spring break :(

Another one 35 mins ago Mag4

Oh no. So sad.

How does all the other stupid stories come before this!!!!!! Priorities daily mail really thats sad

Perhaps the planet is getting tired of our pollution?

I'm not religious, but multiple earthquakes, wars, mass movement of people. Isn't it all getting a bit weird?

California will be next

We have had the seismologists forecasting many of these incidents to come, with particular ferocity as the tectonic plates readjust from around the world. Eucador yesterday, perhaps California later this month, next year - who knows. Just view the number of tectonic plates on this planet and read up on how the continents have shifted over the ages.

In the end times the Bible say's in Matthew 24:7 'There will be famines & earthquakes.What with the signs also of the four blood moons we had in 2014 & 2015 in the Bible it say's the moon will turn blood red.Time is running out get yourselves right with the Lord Jesus,repent of your sins,ask God for forgiveness,tell him you believe he is the son of God & that he died for you on the cross,invite Jesus to come live inside your heart & you will be born again.Jesus will return any day now & the Angel of the Lord will sound the trumpet & Jesus will descend on a cloud through the portholes of the sky & in a blink of an eye the dead in Christ,those that believed in Jesus will rise up to meet him in the clouds,then those who are still alive on earth,won't have to die,but will rise up to be with him in the clouds & will live forever more in heaven for eternity.These believers that will be missing on earth will be the ones that are sin free,reading their Bibles,put God first .

How sad for the people of Ecuador. It is a beautiful country. I know their government hates the USA but we must send them aid, rescue crews, and anything else they need right away. They don't have much down there and will need our help.

The problem with quakes is we are all ensconced in concrete ... in the very old days houses were made from wood with thatched roofs .

:(

Do individual earthquakes affect the tectonic plates around the world?

Don't mess with Mother Nature.

Dutchsinse has been talking about these movements for some time and that he's concerned that the West coast of the US hasn't as yet seen anything above a magnitude 4, given the fact that the whole pacific rim is moving. He's talked about Papua and Vanuatu, the Kyrill Islands North of Japan and then over towards Vancouver and down the West Coast. There are always earthquakes but where ever it seems to very quiet or as in the case of the Japanese volcanoes, they stop their normal daily eruption, then there's something going on and from his vast experience it's a HUGE warning sign. He works on the geological survey data as it comes in, he's worth following if you are in mining or an earthquake prone zone.