This Thursday, the capital of Colombia, Bogotá, was shaken by a strong earthquake of 6.1 magnitude points. So far no casualties or damage have been reported, but hundreds of people had to Quickly evacuate your buildings.
The center of the tremor was in the municipality El Calvario, in the department of Metaand affected “a depth surface of 30km“, as reported by the Colombian Geological Service.
The mayoress of Bogotá, Claudia López, asked the population to take “all precautionary measures against possible aftershocks.” “Calm, serenity and caution“, asked the president on her Twitter account.
He also assured that at the moment there are only “reports of people stuck in elevators and other minor events. Nothing serious.”
As reported by users on social networks, the movement was felt also strongly in Villavicencio, Bucaramanga, Tunja, Ibagué and other cities near the epicenter.
“It was verified in the municipality of Calvario, Meta, The entire municipality was evacuated, only affecting the windows of homes and establishments“, indicated a person in charge of the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) in a chat with journalists. According to the same source, in Villavicencio “landslides are reported” and they are “verifying more affectations.”
A woman died in Calvario after the earthquake
After the earthquake in Bogotá, the mayoress also expressed on his Twitter account that there was a “serious incident reported” after the earthquake. It was about “a woman being thrown into the void from the tenth floor of a residential building apparently due to nervous uncontrol“Claudia Lopez reported.
Firefighters confirmed that the woman died.
Source: Ambito
