â¢ AVIATION (noun) The noun AVIATION has 4 senses: 1. the aggregation of a country's military aircraft. 2. the operation of aircraft to provide transportation. 3. the art of operating aircraft. 4. travel via aircraft. Familiarity information: AVIATION used as a noun is uncommon.
The 1906 EcuadorâColombia earthquake occurred at 15:36 UTC on January 31, off the coast of Ecuador, near Esmeraldas.The earthquake had a moment magnitude of 8.8 and triggered a destructive tsunami that caused at least 500 casualties on the coast of Colombia.he earthquake occurred along the boundary between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate. The earthquake is likely to be a result of thrust-faulting, caused by the subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the South American plate.
San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha,[1] an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains.n article at History.com entitled â Earthquake destroys landmarks in Quito â provides more details: Quito, Ecuador, the site of many powerful earthquakes through the years, suffers one of its worst when a tremor kills 5,000 people and destroys some of the most famous buildings in South America, on this day in 1859.