{"id":354170,"date":"2026-08-10T08:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/powerful-earthquake-shakes-colombia-and-ecuador-prompting-people-to-evacuate"},"modified":"2026-08-10T08:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:40:20","slug":"powerful-earthquake-shakes-colombia-and-ecuador-prompting-people-to-evacuate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/powerful-earthquake-shakes-colombia-and-ecuador-prompting-people-to-evacuate","title":{"rendered":"Highly effective earthquake shakes Colombia and Ecuador prompting folks to evacuate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">BOGOTA, Colombia &#8212; <\/span>A powerful earthquake in western Colombia on Monday shook the South American nation and neighboring Ecuador, prompting people to evacuate homes and buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The United States Geological Survey and Colombia&#8217;s counterpart both reported a 7.4 magnitude, while relatively deep. Both reported the epicenter in San Jose Del Palmar, a community about 250 miles (400 kilometers) west of Colombia\u2019s capital, Bogota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities did not immediately report damages or injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">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 class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/venezuela-earthquakes-deaths-d32eecaceabe88b93670e27accabfea2\">killed more than 5,000<\/a> people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/International\/wireStory\/powerful-earthquake-shakes-colombia-ecuador-prompting-people-evacuate-135515580\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOGOTA, Colombia &#8212; A powerful earthquake in western Colombia on Monday shook the South American nation and neighboring Ecuador, prompting people to evacuate homes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30596,1241,30598,30595,92,6967,148,30599,30600,6638,30597],"class_list":["post-354170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bogota","tag-colombia","tag-colombia-and-ecuador","tag-del-palmar","tag-disaster-accident","tag-ecuador","tag-environment","tag-flora-of-colombia","tag-flora-of-ecuador","tag-venezuela","tag-western-colombia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354172,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354170\/revisions\/354172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}