'The ground beneath me began to shake violently. I grabbed the people closest to me and we ran'

As more harrowing details of the Morocco earthquake emerge, Irishman Adam and his partner Alicia reflect on their own experience in Ecuador seven years ago

Adam Nolan and Alicia Harmon were living in Ecuador with their young son at the time of the 2016 earthquake

"It was three minutes before the end of happy hour. The sun had just set.” 

Dubliner Adam Nolan recalls vividly the moment the earthquake first hit. He’d been living in Ecuador with his American partner, Alicia and their young child when the tragedy struck on 16th April, 2016.