Major quake rocks Colombia and other countries, causing damage and injuries
Women look at a damaged building after an earthquake in Cali, Colombia on Aug 10, 2026. (Photo: AFP/Joaquin Sarmiento)
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BOGOTA: A powerful earthquake rocked Colombia and other Latin American countries on Monday (Aug 10), causing unspecified damage and injuries and building evacuations in Bogota.
The Colombian geological service put the magnitude of the quake at 6.6 while its American counterpart USGS put it at 7.4, with an epicentre 100km underground in the west of Colombia.
It was felt in Ecuador and as far away as Panama to the north, and prompted building evacuations in Bogota, AFP reporters saw.
The governor of Colombia’s Choco province wrote on X that there were injuries and serious damage to buildings in the department’s capital Quibdo.
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The mayor of Cali, Colombia’s third largest city, also reported “major damage”.
News outlets aired footage of some buildings with their facades ripped off by the quake.
In Bogota some people ran out into the street in their pyjamas as emergency sirens rang out, AFP reporters saw.
Twin earthquakes in Venezuela of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 on Jun 24 killed more than 6,000 people and caused devastating property damage.
Source: AFP/zl
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