{"id":428859,"date":"2026-08-10T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428859\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:26:09","slug":"7-4-magnitude-earthquake-prompts-evacuations-in-colombia-and-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428859\/","title":{"rendered":"7.4-magnitude earthquake prompts evacuations in Colombia and Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOGOTA, Colombia (TNND) \u2014 A 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit western Colombia on Monday, with the powerful quake shaking as far as neighboring Ecuador, prompting evacuations. <\/p>\n<p>The epicenter of the earthquake has been reported by the U.S. Geological Survey in San Jose Del Palmar, a municipality in the Choco region around 250 miles west of Colombia&#8217;s capital of Bogota.  <\/p>\n<p>The USGS said the earthquake struck at a depth of 66 miles. <\/p>\n<p>Choco Governor Nubia C\u00f3rdoba wrote on social media that in the regional capital &#8220;there are injuries and serious damage to buildings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s earthquake follows two consecutive 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/dog-found-alive-after-29-days-under-venezuela-earthquake-rubble-reports-poodle-animals-pets-natural-disasters-survivor-trapped-rescued-beyli-health-issues-eye-ulcers-dehydrated-dehydration-veterinarians-treatment-recovery-death-toll#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">earthquakes in Venezuela<\/a> in late June. Those earthquakes destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed more than 5,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>_______<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOGOTA, Colombia (TNND) \u2014 A 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit western Colombia on Monday, with the powerful quake shaking as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-428859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428859","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=428859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}