Colombia Quake Death Toll Tops 200 as Foreign Aid Arrives

The death toll from Colombia’s earthquake rose above 200 as the new government of President Abelardo de la Espriella concentrates its efforts on responding to the strongest tremor to strike the country in 47 years.

Rescuers desperately searching for survivors in the wreckage left by the strongest earthquake to hit Colombia in over a decade miraculously found a baby beneath the rubble and pulled the child to safety.

Footage shared on social media shows a baby being rescued from the bloody arms of a man trapped underneath a destroyed building in Cali after a powerful earthquake struck Colombia.

The earthquake is Colombia's deadliest since a 6.2-magnitude quake devastated parts of the same western coffee-growing region in January 1999, killing more than 1,000 people.Colombian rescue workers are racing against time to find survivors trapped beneath collapsed buildings after a powerful earthquake struck the coun

An emergency order would give the country's new president temporary authority to issue economic and tax decrees without the need for congressional approval.

Colombia quake death toll tops 250 as rescuers race to find survivors  Reuters

The country's strongest earthquake in a century, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, is one of its deadliest natural disasters in years

A 7.4-magnitude quake devastated western Colombia, killing 132, destroying buildings and leaving hundreds missing.

Rescue crews dug through mountains of shattered concrete in western Colombia on Tuesday, racing to find survivors after a powerful earthquake killed more than 200 people, according to estimates from local authorities.

Rescuers race for survivors after Colombia quake kills 111  USA Today

Colombia's newly inaugurated President Abelardo de la Espriella on Monday declared a state of emergency after a powerful earthquake struck the west of the country.