{"id":428874,"date":"2026-08-10T15:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428874\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:54:21","slug":"strong-earthquake-in-colombia-and-ecuador-as-officials-report-injuries-collapsed-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428874\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong earthquake in Colombia and Ecuador as officials report injuries, collapsed buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Officials in Colombia are reporting injuries, people trapped inside collapsed buildings and serious damage after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake<\/a> shook western Colombia and the region on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

The quake\u2019s epicenter was reported in the municipality of San Jos\u00e9 Del Palmar in the department \u200bof Choc\u00f3. There, Gov. Nubia Carolina C\u00f3rdoba-Curi said on social media that injuries and serious damage to buildings have been reported in the capital city of Quibd\u00f3, about 188 miles northwest of the reported epicenter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are already conducting a damage assessment to issue the first official report,\u201d C\u00f3rdoba-Curi wrote on X in Spanish.<\/p>\n

\"APTOPIXA man leaves an apartment building after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia, on Monday.Santiago Saldarriaga \/ AP<\/p>\n

Alejandro Eder, mayor of Cali, said that at least 20 buildings have collapsed in the city \u201cwith people trapped inside<\/a>.\u201d Emergency response teams have already begun to set tents in the area to coordinate rescue efforts, Eder added<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Colombia\u2019s civil aviation authority, airports in Pereira, Manizales, Quibd\u00f3, Armenia, Cartago and Buenaventura \u201chave been affected<\/a>.\u201d Flights at these airports have been suspended \u201cpending an assessment of structural damage to the facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newly sworn-in Colombian President Abelardo De La Espriella said he has \u201cpersonally taken charge of the emergency response in San Jos\u00e9 del Palmar<\/a>\u201d and ordered the \u201cestablishment of a Unified Command Post to coordinate the response to the damage and assist those affected.\u201d<\/p>\n

De La Espriella added he is awaiting a \u201cdetailed report on the situation and the most urgent needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Authorities did not immediately report deaths.<\/p>\n

The earthquake 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials in Colombia are reporting injuries, people trapped inside collapsed buildings and serious damage after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-428874","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\/428874","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=428874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}