A landslide near Quito, Ecuador, damaged the La Mica-Quito Sur pipeline around 23:00 local time (LT) on July 9, 2025, rupturing 350 m (1 150 feet) of pipe and suspending water supply to six southern parishes, affecting approximately 88 700 families.
On June 16, 2024, a catastrophic landslide in Baños, Ecuador, claimed the lives of at least eight people, leaving many more injured, and several missing. The disaster followed days of torrential rain that destabilized a hillside, causing it to collapse and bury parts of the city under tonnes of mud and debris.
At least 16 people were killed and 7 are missing after a landslide hit Ecuador’s mountain village of Alausi.
Severe weather in Ecuador has led to the death of at least six people in recent days due to flooding and landslides, with a total of eleven fatalities recorded since the beginning of the year. The most affected provinces are Chimborazo, Esmeraldas, Los Ríos, Loja, Manabí, El Oro, and Guayas.
Heavy rainfall affecting southern Ecuador, particularly the province of Azuay, over the past 48 hours caused numerous landslides resulting in casualties and damage. On March 28, the Servicio Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos reported 4 fatalities, 4 injured…
A very large landslide hit near the town of Chunchi in Chimborazo, Ecuador, on February 12, 2021. According to Dr. Dave Petley of The Landslide Blog, its scale makes the event unusual, as an entire hamlet disappeared after the slide. A state of emergency has been…
Heavy rains affecting the Morona-Santiago province, Ecuador since December 8, 2019, triggered floods and landslides in which at least one person was killed. Several others are missing. According to Ecuador's National Risk and Emergency Management Service…
At least 9 people have been killed and 8 injured after heavy rain caused landslides in Limon Indanza Canton, Ecuador's Morona Santiago Province on November 24, 2018. According to the National Risk and Emergency Management Service, 150 people were evacuated, 9…
