00:04Social media footage on Monday captured the moment a four-story building
00:08crumbled to the ground in the western Colombian city of Pereira
00:11after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake shook a wide swath of the country.
00:22The quake's epicenter was near San Jose del Palmar, in Chaco,
00:26a sparsely populated province on Colombia's Pacific coast.
00:29Preliminary reports indicated at least 111 dead and 87 injured, while 188 people were missing.
00:36Colombia's Geological Service said it was the strongest earthquake recorded in the country in the 21st century.
00:42Footage from Manizales showed one of the side towers of the city's landmark neo-Gothic cathedral
00:47collapsing and scattering debris onto nearby streets.
00:52The quake struck just days after Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as president,
00:57thrusting the new administration into its first major crisis.
01:21Colombia sits along the seismically active Pacific ring of fire and records thousands of mostly minor earthquakes each month.
01:28The Colombian Geological Service said it had recorded 21 aftershocks by late Monday and warned that additional tremors were likely.
01:38For the second-to-sing contact information is well-wanted,
01:42for example, in the hayids that were reckoned with at the height of the city's mountain insemini
01:44of the west coast, which also wasn't, not only a hundred years ago,
01:44we can see that when we arrived in the city's city's chesed.
01:44the telegraph of the 19th century,
01:44the riddle of the way that was designed to end the city's country' country,
01:47The east coast of the building has been implementing the most important,
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