Powerful quake jolts Ecuador

A man evacuates his belongings in Manta, Ecuador, after a powerful 7.8-magnitude quake hit the country.

General scene of the destruction in Manta, Ecuador, after a powerful 7.8-magnitude quake hit the country.

A vehicle rolls on a cracked route after a 7.8-magnitude quake in Chone, Ecuador.

Residents sleep under a makeshift tent outside the emergency center in the town of Portoviejo, Ecuador. Parts of Ecuador have been devastated by the country’s strongest earthquake in decades.

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa kisses a group of children after meeting with local authorities in the emergency center in Portoviejo, Ecuador.

Veronica Paladines removes rubble in search for her husband in the Tarqui neighborhood in Manta, Ecuador, after a powerful quake hit the country.

Heavy damage in the Ecuadorian town of Pedernales, after a 7.8-magnitude quake hit the country.

People carry an empty coffin on a pickup truck as they drive to collect the body of an earthquake victim in Pedernales, Ecuador.

Lighted candles burn in front of a collapsed building as a tribute to victims of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in La Chorrera, Ecuador.

Rescue workers search the rubble after a 7.8-magnitude quake in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Scene from Manta, Ecuador, after a powerful quake hit the country.

A man searches a collapsed building on Sunday in the Pedernales, Ecuador, the day after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit.

A woman cries in the quake-ravaged town of Pedernales, Ecuador.

Residents react as they gather in the street in the Pacific coastal town of Pedernales after the Ecuador earthquake.

Collapsed buildings in the town of Pedernales, Ecuador, after the earthquake.

Residents sleep in the street in the coastal town of Pedernales, Ecuador, after the earthquake.

Residents wary of returning to their homes prepare food in a street in Pedernales, Ecuador.

A man checks out a fallen building in Guayaquil after the Ecuador earthquake.

Rescuers work to pull survivors from a collapsed building in the city of Manta, Ecuador.

Rescue crews check a car after a bridge collapsed in Guayaquil, Ecuador, when a 7.8 earthquake hit.

People rest in a Guayaquil park after the Ecuador earthquake.

People take pictures of a collapsed bridge in Guayaquil, Ecuador, after the earthquake hit.

Rescue workers stand before a destroyed car after the collapse of a bridge in an earthquake in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Residents walk on a street amid destroyed buildings following an earthquake in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Patients and relatives wait outside the Colombia Clinic in Cali, Colombia, after being preventively evacuated following a powerful earthquake that hit Ecuador.

An image taken from Venezuelan channel Telesur shows Ecuador’s Vice President Jorge Glas updating quake information at a news conference in Quito.

Patients and relatives wait outside the Colombia Clinic in Cali, Colombia, after being preventively evacuated following a powerful earthquake that hit Ecuador.