1300 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://reliefweb.int/report/ecuador/ecuador-floods-earthquake-march-2023-dref-final-report-mdrec021Description of the Event. Date of event. 2023-03-20. What happened, where and when? Rainy season: According to the National Regional Study of the El Niño Phenomenon (ERFEN, by its initials in Spanish) Committee, abnormal warming was observed in the Ecuadorian Sea and on the northern coast of Peru....2024-05-09T08:19+0200humanitarianresponse-0c921ba059259ef3136d46e4834b999020240509081900https://exbulletin.com/uncategorized/2691556/Earthquake: On March 18, 2023, in the Gulf of Guayaquil, a seismic event with a magnitude of 6.64 Mw, a depth of 63.1 km, and a total of 72 aftershocks ranging between 2.1 and 4.6 MeV was recorded. Although the main epicenter and aftershocks were in the province of Guayas, the main damage was....2024-05-09T04:34+0200exbulletin-bdda5ac870bd89ed853ba87fb1236ec420240509043400https://reliefweb.int/report/ecuador/ecuador-floods-earthquake-march-2023-dref-final-report-mdrec021Description of the Event. Date of event. 2023-03-20. What happened, where and when? Rainy season: According to the National Regional Study of the El Niño Phenomenon (ERFEN, by its initials in Spanish) Committee, abnormal warming was observed in the Ecuadorian Sea and on the northern coast of Peru....2024-05-09T02:45+0200reliefWeb-0c921ba059259ef3136d46e4834b999020240509024500https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/10/3918This research examines the structural behavior of the central vault of the Matriz church that collapsed during the 1949 earthquake in Ambato, Ecuador. Following the disaster, the church and Episcopal Palace were demolished. The central vault lacked buttresses and had large cracks two years before the collapse.2024-05-08T08:26+0200mdpi-cf2efe52bf4f4c9478f230ac9b126b3520240508082600