{"id":428812,"date":"2026-08-10T14:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428812\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:10:07","slug":"powerful-earthquake-shakes-colombia-and-ecuador-prompting-people-to-evacuate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428812\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful earthquake shakes Colombia and Ecuador prompting people to evacuate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BOGOTA, Colombia &#8212; A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, shaking the South American nation and neighboring Ecuador and prompting people to evacuate homes and buildings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The epicenter was in San Jose Del Palmar, a municipality in the Choco region about 250 miles (400 kilometers) west of Colombia\u2019s capital, Bogota, the U.S. Geological Survey and Colombia\u2019s counterpart reported. The USGS said it struck at a depth of 66 miles (107 kilometers). <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Choco Gov. 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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">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 <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/venezuela-earthquakes-deaths-d32eecaceabe88b93670e27accabfea2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killed more than 5,000<\/a> people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOGOTA, Colombia &#8212; A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, shaking the South American nation and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3934,18,4102,88,90,89,151689,1880],"class_list":["post-428812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-earthquakes","tag-general-news","tag-natural-disasters","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-venezuela-earthquakes","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}