BU Study Abroad Program Students Unharmed by Ecuador Earthquake | Latin American Studies

BU Study Abroad Program Students Unharmed by Ecuador Earthquake

All University students and staff in BU Study Abroad programs in Ecuador are safe and unharmed by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that shook the coast of that country Saturday evening. Joseph Finkhouse, associate director of health, safety, and security for Global Programs, reports that all 7 students in the Latin American Studies Program in Quito are safe, as are the 12 students in the Tropical Ecology Program. Quito is 105 miles from the epicenter of the earthquake, which killed over 200 people, according to the New York Times. The students in the Tropical Ecology Program are currently in Tiputini, in the Amazon basin, where the quake was not felt. Finkhouse says the directors of those programs notified him at 10:30 p.m. Saturday and reported that all students had been accounted for and all were unharmed.

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