{"id":262615,"date":"2026-08-10T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262615\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:48:10","slug":"a-7-4-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-colombia-and-ecuador-prompting-people-to-evacuate-buildings-ap-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262615\/","title":{"rendered":"A 7.4-magnitude earthquake shakes Colombia and Ecuador, prompting people to evacuate buildings | Ap-world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) \u2014 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>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>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>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 href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/venezuela-earthquakes-deaths-d32eecaceabe88b93670e27accabfea2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killed more than 5,000<\/a> people.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) \u2014 A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, shaking the South American nation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,111043,79110,38,9057,99436,301],"class_list":["post-262615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-colombia-ecuador-earthquake","tag-earthquakes","tag-general-news","tag-natural-disasters","tag-venezuela-earthquakes","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}