The Geophysical Institute reported an increase in seismic signals on Oct. 21 from the volcano in the Andean mountain range, just 45 kilometers southeast of Quito, so a full eruption is expected ...

Perched sky-high in the Andes at the foot of the snow-capped Pichincha volcano, Quito is—quite literally—breathtaking. Thanks to one of the largest and best-preserved colonial cores in Latin ...

The new species was found near Mojanda, a dormant volcano with a caldera filled with lakes. The site is about a 50-mile trip from Quito. A second related new species, Igor’s Andean mouse ...

The 3-kilometre-wide caldera was formed by the collapse of a volcano. Quilotoa is 111 miles (178km) southwest of Ecuador's capital Quito ... point-to-point trail near Sigchos, Cotopaxi.

“We declare a state of emergency due to the unusual activity of Cotopaxi” Correa said “God willing, everything will go well and the volcano will ... 43.5 miles south of Quito, led to a ...

The area around Kanlaon Volcano in the Philippines was still under evacuation orders from an eruption in December​.