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The world's 7 strongest earthquakes since 2004

Lara O'Reilly,Associated PressApr 17, 2016, 16:16 IST

A man stands in front of his damaged house in Lais village, about 50 km from Bengkulu City, on September 13, 2007, in Bengkulu province, Sumatra Island, Indonesia.Dimas Ardian/Getty Images

A magnitude-7.8 earthquake shook Ecuador's central coast on Saturday.

The country's vice president called it the strongest to hit the country in decades.

Associated Press used stats from the U.S. Geological Survey to pick out the strongest earthquakes that have shuddered the world since 1900.

We picked out the biggest earthquakes to hit in the 21st century.