Earthquake on Colombia’s Pacific Coast causes injuries and damage<\/p>\n
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia<\/a> today, shaking the South American nation and neighbouring Ecuador and causing people to evacuate homes and buildings.<\/p>\n At least 20 \u2060buildings \u2060collapsed in \u200ban earthquake on \u2060Monday in the \u2060Colombian \u200bcity \u200cof \u200cCali, with people \u200ctrapped inside, mayor Alejandro Eder said. The city \u200chas requested teams \u200bfrom Bogota and \u2060Medellin to \u200baid in rescue \u200befforts, \u200bhe added.<\/p>\n The epicentre was in San Jose Del Palmar, a municipality in the Choco region about 250 miles (400km) west of Colombia\u2019s capital, Bogota, the US Geological Survey and Colombia\u2019s counterpart reported. The USGS said it struck at a depth of 66 miles (107km).<\/p>\n Choco governor Nubia C\u00f3rdoba said on social media that in the regional capital, \u201cthere are injuries and serious damage to buildings,\u201d without providing further details.<\/p>\n The temblor follows two back-to-back 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes in Venezuela in late June. Those earthquakes destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed more than 5,000 people.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n Footage shared by local media outlets showed homes and small buildings collapsing in the cities of Pereira, Cali and Quibdo.<\/p>\n In Manizales, a city about 190 miles (300km) west of Bogota, one of the towers of the neo-Gothic cathedral collapsed and fell on the nave.<\/p>\n In Cali, a city of 2m people, mayor Alejandro Eder said that residents were trapped in at least 19 buildings that had collapsed.<\/p>\n Small earthquakes, known as \u201ctemblores,\u201d are common in central and western Colombia<\/a>, but those above 6.0 magnitude are rare. In 1999, a 6.2 magnitude quake near the city of Armenia, killed more than 1,100 people.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Six airports in Colombia suspend operations<\/p>\n Six airports damaged in today\u2019s earthquake in Colombia<\/a> have suspended operations, the civil aeronautics agency said.<\/p>\n These airports in western Colombia serve Pereira, Manizales, Quibdo, Armenia, Cartago and Buenaventura, the agency wrote on X.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Earthquake on Colombia’s Pacific Coast causes injuries and damage<\/p>\n