{"id":854469,"date":"2026-08-11T18:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/854469\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:50:12","slug":"live-updates-over-200-dead-in-colombia-earthquake-with-rescuers-unable-to-reach-epicenter-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/854469\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Over 200 dead in Colombia earthquake, with rescuers unable to reach epicenter yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"<p>Native<\/p>\n

Native Californian recounts earthquake experience in Colombia\n <\/p>\n

\"<p>Native<\/p>\n

Native Californian recounts earthquake experience in Colombia<\/p>\n

5:14<\/p>\n

\n A native Californian, Mark Ericson grew up with earthquakes. But little could have prepared him for the once-in-a-decade quake that careened through Colombia on Monday.\n <\/p>\n

\n The former TV journalist was inside his house in Cali, west of the capital Bogot\u00e1, when he felt a gentle rumbling that quickly morphed into convulsive tremors \u2013 lasting about 45 seconds to a minute.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019ve never felt anything like this. It was scary, I was absolutely frightened,\u201d Ericson told CNN\u2019s Christina Macfarlane on CNN\u2019s Connect The World on Tuesday. \u201cIt just kept getting worse and worse and worse\u2026 Like the ground was giving way.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Communities in Cali, the third-largest city<\/a> in Colombia, have faced some of the most lethal impacts of the earthquake nationwide \u2013 with at least 95 people killed there<\/a> alone, according to local agencies and authorities in the country. Multiple landslides trapped residents in parts of the city on Monday, the UN reported<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n Across the country, those with disabilities are plagued by additional survival challenges, the global NGO, CARE International said on Tuesday<\/a>. For Ericson\u2019s son, who has autism, trying to escape the building \u201cwas very difficult,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Moments later, disoriented residents were streaming onto the streets, said Ericson. Just a couple of blocks away, an entire apartment building had collapsed, he told CNN. \u201cIt was chaos\u2026 Like you\u2019re in one of those disaster movies,\u201d said Ericson.\n <\/p>\n

\n Nearly 24 hours after the earthquake first struck Colombia, paramedics are struggling to keep apace of emergency needs, according to Ericson, propelling civilians into action. \u201cEverybody is just coming together to help each other out,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN\u2019s Brooke Jenner and Christina Macfarlane contributed reporting.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Native Californian recounts earthquake experience in Colombia Native Californian recounts earthquake experience in Colombia 5:14 A native Californian,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-854469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}