{"id":370477,"date":"2026-08-13T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370477\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:14:10","slug":"earthquake-in-colombia-miami-beach-opens-4-aid-drop-off-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370477\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake in Colombia: Miami Beach opens 4 aid drop-off locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 13, 2026 at 11:20 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 13, 2026 at 11:39 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/J3W547RDGPFOKD3QVHBA6NL2VI.jpg\"  width=\"8768\" height=\"4932\"\/>Firefighters search through the rubble three days after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (AP Photo\/Ivan Valencia) (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) (Ivan Valencia\/AP Photo\/Ivan Valencia) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, Fla.  \u2014 Miami Beach announced on Thursday that there are four drop-off locations accepting aid for the victims of the 7.4-magnitude earthquake in western Colombia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Colombian Geological Survey reported a 4.2-magnitude aftershock struck on Thursday in San Jos\u00e9 del Palmar, in the Choc\u00f3 region. The death toll of Monday\u2019s earthquake was at least 265 people. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami Beach Fire Rescue personnel will be collecting donations from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Friday to Aug. 31, at four stations: 1051 Jefferson Ave., 2300 Pine Tree Drive, 5303 Collins Ave., and 6880 Indian Creek Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The city welcomes donations of new camping gear, hygiene supplies, first-aid kits, tarps, and canned food. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">City employees plan to deliver the donations to Miami-Dade County-based nonprofit Global Empowerment Mission\u2019s warehouse in Doral. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For more information about the city\u2019s effort, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamibeachfl.gov\/ColombiaRelief\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.miamibeachfl.gov\/ColombiaRelief\/\">visit this page. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/world\/2026\/08\/13\/rescuers-call-for-silence-around-earthquake-rubble-as-window-for-survival-narrows-in-colombia\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/world\/2026\/08\/13\/rescuers-call-for-silence-around-earthquake-rubble-as-window-for-survival-narrows-in-colombia\/\">Rescuers call for silence around earthquake rubble as window for survival narrows in Colombia<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 13, 2026 at 11:20 AM Updated:\u00a0August 13, 2026 at 11:39 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandFirefighters search through the rubble three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-370477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}