00:01Hello, welcome to Telesur English. We are now on Colombia where just two minutes ago an earthquake shook various parts
00:08of the country.
00:09The earthquake with the magnitude 7.4, latitude 5.04, longitude 76.34 and 96 km lasted four minutes and
00:22began at 7.34 a.m. according to preliminary information from the Colombian Geological Service.
00:29The epicenter was located in the western part of the country in the municipality of San Jose del Palmar in
00:35the department of Chocó and it was also felt in several municipalities.
00:40As we are seeing right now in the images all the residents of the area evacuated from buildings that already
00:48were also feeling the impact of this 7.4 magnitude earthquake.
00:55According to the United States Geological Survey the tremors also were felt in several cities across the country.
01:06In the nation capital Bogotá also the tremor was felt strongly and our arms sounded and in many buildings people
01:15evacuated to the streets as a precautionary measure.
01:19The Bogotá mayor Carlos Galán said on his ex-account that at this time there are no reports of injuries
01:27or structural damage only cracks in buildings.
01:31This is at this moment a developing story in Colombia as we were watching a 7.4 magnitude earthquake strikes
01:39the country at exactly 7.35 a.m. with a depth of 107 km.
01:47The local also about 280 km west of Bogotá in the department of Chocó.
01:57Let's recall that according to the Reuters agency at this moment the morning earthquake that struck Colombia the 7.4
02:09magnitude earthquake was felt in several localities of the country was also felt in Bogotá.
02:18According to the information agency a morning earthquake caused injuries and damage in the Pacific Colombian province of Chocó.
02:28Also on X the tremor was felt in the capital of Bogotá and always as far away as Venezuela.
02:40We have just experienced a major earthquake in the department of Chocó as the governor Nubia Carolina Cordoba Curi said
02:48on her ex-account.
02:50She stated that they are concerned about the aftershocks although the epicenter was near San José del Palmar.
02:58Although the epicenter was near San José del Palmar there are injuries and also damage to buildings in the capital.
03:03They are already the authorities are already carrying out damage assessment and will issue the first official report shortly.
03:12As the governor Nubia Carolina Cordoba Curi said on her ex-account the National Unit for Disaster Acount by Cádiz.
03:20and Risk Management said that at exactly 7.34 a.m. a quake had a 6.6 7.4 magnitude
03:30and also a depth
03:32of 79 kilometers adding that it was in contact with authorities to verify the potential damage
03:40as we are watching in the images at this moment the citizens have evacuated the buildings as we
03:47have seen that the the earthquake was felt strongly not only in its epicenter but as authorities inform
03:56it was also felt in the capital Bogota as we were saying this was 7.4 magnitude earthquake with
04:06with a depth of 96 kilometers it lasted as authorities said four minutes began at 30 at 7.34
04:16i am according to the information of the colombian geological service the epicenter as we were we
04:22were saying is was located in the western part of the country in the department of chocó exactly in
04:28the municipality of san jose del palmar and also felt in several municipalities authorities have informed
04:36that that at this moment the authorities and the damaged authorities are verifying the risks and are
04:45verifying the damage and they are also concerned about the aftershocks that these earthquakes can have
04:54this is an information an information in development as just two hours ago the 7.4 magnitude was felt in
05:05theachtary of the city of county and of state of thing in Colombia i'm cried in his slave
05:06due to hallelujah month and received states of 372 at the contract from your background and
05:06in Columbia according to the the department the department of vital caucá in Columbia the quake where has
05:17the mother depth of one hundred and seven kilometers was felt also across a large region
05:24of the country. As we were saying, according to the Reuters agencies, several governors
05:33of the provinces of Colombia are verifying the damage and as we are seeing right now
05:40in the images, we can see buildings that have felt the impact of this earthquake. We have
05:48seen the damage already in just a few hours ago, just a few hours after this 7.4 magnitude
05:57in Colombia. And as we are watching right now, the people are out of the buildings, out
06:05of structures that can mean risk or damage to the civilians and as we were saying, they
06:13are waiting for the help of the Colombian authorities. And as we were watching at this moment, these
06:20are the causes of the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that strike Colombia. As we were seeing, this
06:29is a major earthquake, an earthquake of 7.4 magnitude that according to the United States Geological
06:36Survey had a 7.4 magnitude. The trembler happened at 7.34 AM in Colombia. Time data from the agency
06:47shows about 3 miles east of San Jose del Parmar, Colombia, about 150 miles west of Bogota, the
06:56capital. As we are watching in these images, there are damage registered in several buildings
07:04across the regions affected by the 7.4 magnitude. According to Nubia Carolina Cordova, the governor
07:12of the Choco region, the epicenter of this tragedy, said on social media that there were injuries
07:19reported and severe damage to buildings in Quibdo. That's the capital of Choco, the epicenter
07:25of this earthquake, where about 140,000 people live. As seismology review available data, they
07:35may revise the earthquake reported magnitude and also they will collect additional information
07:41of the United States Geological Survey, so we can actually know the extent of the damage
07:50where other regions were felt this to the earthquake of 7.4, as we were saying, it happened.
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