SOURCE :- SIASAT NEWS
On Monday, August 10, a strong 7.4-magnitude earthquake in eastern Colombia left at least 20 people dead and lots of buildings collapsed in cities across the country. More people were left trapped under debris, making residents flee their homes as far as Bogota, Colombia.
According to the US Geological Survey and Colombia’s rival, San Jose Del Palmar, a group of about 4,800 individuals in the Choco area, was at its core. According to the USGS, the strike was 66 miles ( 107 kilometers ) deep. Ecuador, which is close by, felt the earthquake.
According to local officials, two persons died in Manizales and at least 18 people were killed in Pereira.
Cities across the northern region of the nation were ravaged by the earthquake, and residents were picking through the fragments of the dust because they worried about aftershocks.
Jorge Moncayo, a 64-year-old car driver in Cali, Colombia’s third-largest area, claimed he witnessed plumes of dust pour up his mountainside home as buildings collapsed following the earthquake. On Monday morning, residents of the city and rescue personnel were already searching the rubble of collapsed properties.
He said,” My entire property shook.” I’ve never experienced such a strong earthquake.
One of the buildings of the neo-Gothic church fell on the dome in Manizales, a town nestled in Colombia’s coffee-producing mountains, in the collapsed and fallen building. The city’s mayor, Manizales, Jorge Eduardo Rojas, claimed two people had died in the town “because of the earthquake” and urged residents to stay indoors in case of waves.
Significant structural damage to structures
Choco Gov. In the provincial capital of Quibdo, a town of about 130, 000 people, Nubia Cordoba claimed on social media that” there are accidents and major damage to houses.” She declined to provide more information.
In Pereira, Cali, and Quibdo, images captured houses and small buildings collapsing in local media stores.
Mayor Alejandro Eder reported that people of Cali, a town of 2 million people, were confined to at least 19 collapsed properties.
Central and western Colombia are home to a lot of little tremors, known as “temblores,” but those of a scale of 6.0 are uncommon. More than 1,100 people were killed in a 6.2 scale earthquake that occurred close to Armenia in 1999.
Abelardo de la Espriella, Colombia’s newly elected president, announced on Monday that he had privately taken command of the administration’s response to the country’s earthquake-stricken San José del Palmar.
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In Venezuela in late June, a pair of tremors of magnitudes of 7.4 and 7.4 followed. More than 5, 000 people were killed and lots of buildings were destroyed by those earthquakes.
SOURCE : SIASAT
