Japanese rescue workers with bulldozers and sniffer dogs yesterday scrabbled through the mud to find survivors from a landslide that buried houses after a powerful quake, as the death toll rose to 18.
A strong earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Moment magnitude scale struck Ecuador early today, one month after a much larger quake killed some 660 people, the US Geological Survey said.
Japanese rescue workers with bulldozers and sniffer dogs yesterday scrabbled through the mud to find survivors from a landslide that buried houses after a powerful quake, as the death toll rose to 18.
A strong earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Moment magnitude scale struck Ecuador early today, one month after a much larger quake killed some 660 people, the US Geological Survey said.