Colombia-Earthquake
8-19-1993
^By ANDREW SELSKY=
^Associated Press Writer=
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) _ An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 hit Colombia on Saturday, damaging buildings, triggering a landslide and spawning panic across hundreds of miles.
One man reportedly died of a heart attack in the quake. A half-dozen people were reported hurt, including a woman who smashed a window and jumped out the second floor of a building, fearing it would collapse.
In Andes, a town near the epicenter in western Colombia's coffee-growing region, the quake damaged two churches, a school and several homes, said RCN radio. In the nearby village of Anserma, two people were hurt by falling roof tiles. A landslide blocked a highway outside the town.
Saturday's quake, which hit at 4:45 p.m. (5:45 p.m. EDT), was felt strongly in Bogota. It hit the capital in a rolling motion and sent residents running for cover. Tremors also were felt in Medellin _ Colombia's second-largest city, 165 miles northwest of Bogota _ and as far north as Apartado, near the Caribbean and 180 miles from the epicenter.
The Seismic Institute of Manizales said the quake had a preliminary reading of 6.5 and was centered 120 miles west of Bogota.
John Minsch, spokesman for the United States Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., gave the Colombia quake a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 and said it hit about 10 miles west-southwest of Manizales.
In Manizales, the quake caused tall buildings to sway, slamming open windows against the buildings and shattering them, RCN radio reported.
Electrical power and telephone service in Manizales and nearby Armenia were cut cut off by the quake, radio reports said. However, officials in those cities, interviewed by radio telephone, told RCN radio there were no immediate reports of damage.
In Cali, 130 miles south of the epicenter, a woman panicked by the quake leaped out of a second-story window and had to be hospitalized.
The heart attack victim was in Riosucio, 96 miles east of Bogota.
On Feb. 8, a 6.5-magnitude tremor that leveled apartment buildings in the western Colombian city of Pereira killed 46 people, many under tons of debris. In March, at least eight people died in a 5.2-magnitude earthquake in southern Colombia.
^By ANDREW SELSKY=
^Associated Press Writer=
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) _ An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 hit Colombia on Saturday, damaging buildings, triggering a landslide and spawning panic across hundreds of miles.
One man reportedly died of a heart attack in the quake. A half-dozen people were reported hurt, including a woman who smashed a window and jumped out the second floor of a building, fearing it would collapse.
In Andes, a town near the epicenter in western Colombia's coffee-growing region, the quake damaged two churches, a school and several homes, said RCN radio. In the nearby village of Anserma, two people were hurt by falling roof tiles. A landslide blocked a highway outside the town.
Saturday's quake, which hit at 4:45 p.m. (5:45 p.m. EDT), was felt strongly in Bogota. It hit the capital in a rolling motion and sent residents running for cover. Tremors also were felt in Medellin _ Colombia's second-largest city, 165 miles northwest of Bogota _ and as far north as Apartado, near the Caribbean and 180 miles from the epicenter.
The Seismic Institute of Manizales said the quake had a preliminary reading of 6.5 and was centered 120 miles west of Bogota.
John Minsch, spokesman for the United States Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., gave the Colombia quake a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 and said it hit about 10 miles west-southwest of Manizales.
In Manizales, the quake caused tall buildings to sway, slamming open windows against the buildings and shattering them, RCN radio reported.
Electrical power and telephone service in Manizales and nearby Armenia were cut cut off by the quake, radio reports said. However, officials in those cities, interviewed by radio telephone, told RCN radio there were no immediate reports of damage.
In Cali, 130 miles south of the epicenter, a woman panicked by the quake leaped out of a second-story window and had to be hospitalized.
The heart attack victim was in Riosucio, 96 miles east of Bogota.
On Feb. 8, a 6.5-magnitude tremor that leveled apartment buildings in the western Colombian city of Pereira killed 46 people, many under tons of debris. In March, at least eight people died in a 5.2-magnitude earthquake in southern Colombia.
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