A magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Ecuador on Saturday has left more than 400 people dead and many more injured.Thousands are homeless, The Associated Press reports, and highways, air traffic control towers and buildings along the coast have collapsed.Rescue workers were working to find and aid survivors, while officials warned the general public of the perils of digging through the rubble.Some of the hardest-hit areas in Ecuador are remote and impoverished, Carolina Loza Leon, a Quito-based freelance reporter, tells Morning Edition."It's difficult to reach even in a normal situation. So it's even worse — it's exacerbated by the current situation," she says.While coastal tourist destinations were the most devastated, the damage spans vast regions of Ecuador."The aftershocks — we're talking about 230 aftershocks that were even felt in Quito [more than 100 miles from the epicenter]," she says.Loza Leon grew up in the city of Manta, which was badly affected by the quake. "The commercial areas,
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