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Posted on 08/10/2026 9:20:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin
— At least 47 people were killed and dozens of buildings collapsed in cities across western Colombia on Monday after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the South American nation.
The quake trapped residents under debris, leaving more injured and forcing people to evacuate their homes as far as the capital of Bogotá.
The epicenter was in San Jose Del Palmar, a community of about 4,800 people in the Choco region about 250 miles (400 kilometers) west of Bogota, the U.S. Geological Survey and Colombia’s counterpart reported. The USGS said it struck at a depth of 66 miles (107 kilometers). The quake also was felt in neighboring Ecuador and Panama, though minimal damage was reported there.
Local officials confirmed that at least 18 people had been killed in the city of Pereira, two in the city of Manizales, and 27 people in the Valle de Cauca department, where Colombia’s third-biggest city, Cali, is located.
The quake left cities across the west of the country — Pereira, Quibdo, Cali and Manizales — ravaged. A mix of residents and search teams picked through the rubble of collapsed buildings amid concerns by authorities of aftershocks. Colombia’s interior minister said more than 20 municipalities across the country had been hit.
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Must be same fault that hit to east months ago in Venezuela
Libtards will be saying it’s “Trump’s fault”.
Trump must have Dick Cheney’s weather machine.
Hope the coke is ok.
Yikes.
It appears to be a different fault. From a brave search:
"The twin ruptures occurred along the San Sebastián fault system, where the Caribbean tectonic plate grinds eastward relative to the South American plate."
The Columbia quake apparently occurred at the Nazca and South American subduction zone.
As a gentle reminder, there is no “U” in the spelling of the country of Colombia.
The news media just wanted to say “47 dead”.
definitely subduction zone related
They are probably now slumped in their chairs smoking a Camel after writing it.
I have read (I did not stay in a Holiday Express last night!) that when there is a planetary alignment, earthquakes ≥ 7 frequently occur the day of the alignment and up to 48 hours before and after the day of the alignment.
It is within the before-alignment 48 hours. There is a 6 planet alignment Wednesday (8-12).
7.4 is worth writing about and even here in the San Francisco Bay Area, that would cause damage....
Hmmmm. And the 12th is also the New Moon.
Unlikely.
The gravitational stress is less than 1/100th of that of Earth’s Moon, and is considerably less than that of a large weather system.
The Inverse Square Law applies to gravity much like it does to a spherical light source, and the distance to even Venus is immense.
Maybe if ALL that stuff coincided...
Or maybe if all the Venusian men boiled off the planet but some women somehow survived and built a giant tractor beam to try to pull some men off Earth and to Venus...
(Seems like a great plot for a 1950’s B-grade sci-fi movie! Of course the Venusian women would be “hot”.) ;-)
Will the Moon be unusually close to Earth? That would probably be a bigger factor.
If I’m reading this right then the next lunar perigee will be today.
https://spaceandtelescope.com/lunar-perigees-2026/
Thanks for this info on the planetary alignment. I hope to be able to see it.
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