{"id":43242,"date":"2025-06-09T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43242"},"modified":"2025-06-09T02:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T07:20:00","slug":"6-3-magnitude-earthquake-hits-central-colombia-no-casualties-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43242","title":{"rendered":"6.3 magnitude earthquake hits central Colombia, no casualties reported"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">BOGOTA &#8212;&nbsp;A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck central&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/colombia\">Colombia<\/a>&nbsp;early Sunday, authorities said. No casualties were immediately reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The quake hit 17 kilometers (10.5 miles) northeast of Paratebueno, a city about 116 miles southeast of the capital, Bogota. The U.S. Geological Service reported the quake hit at 8:08 a.m. (1308 GMT) at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Colombian Geological Service reported additional tremors with magnitudes ranging from 4 to 4.6 occurred in the same area minutes later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The National Unit for Disaster Risk Management said on X that it was assessing the situation in several municipalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Images posted on social media showed people in Bogota who felt the tremor \u2014 some left their workplaces to seek safety. Footage from rural areas indicated there was no damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Colombia lies in the Pacific Ring of Fire, a region known for frequent seismic and volcanic activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/63-magnitude-earthquake-hits-central-colombia-casualties-reported-122629555\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOGOTA &#8212;&nbsp;A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck central&nbsp;Colombia&nbsp;early Sunday, authorities said. No casualties were immediately reported. The quake hit 17 kilometers (10.5 miles) northeast of Paratebueno, a city about 116 miles southeast of the capital, Bogota. The U.S. Geological Service reported the quake hit at 8:08 a.m. (1308 GMT) at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":43243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[2330,6734],"class_list":["post-43242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-earthquake","tag-magnitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43244,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43242\/revisions\/43244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}