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Colombia rescuers race against the clock as quake death toll tops 220

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 675 words
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Colombia rescuers race against the clock as quake death toll tops 220 Rescuers in western Colombia worked through the night and into Tuesday searching for survivors beneath the wreckage after a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake devastated parts of the…

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Colombia rescuers race against the clock as quake death toll tops 220 Rescuers in western Colombia worked through the night and into Tuesday searching for survivors beneath the wreckage after a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake devastated parts of the…

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At least 224 people have been killed and authorities are warning the number of casualties could still climb.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 13 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake devastated parts of the country’s coffee-growing region on Monday”
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Multiple independent sources (CNBC, New York Times, and other web results) confirm a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Colombia's coffee-growing region on a Monday.
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web search NEUTRAL — A major, 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck in Colombia on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 7:34 a.m. Colombia time, data from the agency shows, about 3 m…
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/10/world/earthqu…
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web search NEUTRAL — The 7.4-magnitude quake struck western Colombia late on Monday and triggered a frantic search for survivors in several cities.The quake's epicentre was in Colombia's coastal Choco region at a depth of…
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/colombia-august-earthqua…
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web search NEUTRAL — The 7.4 magnitude earthquake, the most powerful to strike the South American country in decades, tore through Colombia’s coffee-growing heartland early on Monday, reduced multi-storey buildings to rub…
https://thenightly.com.au/world/colombia-earthquake-death-to…
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Claim 2: “In Cali, home to about 2.2 million people, at least 85 people were killed”
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Xenix News reports at least 85 deaths in Cali. Wikipedia confirms Cali's population is approximately 2.3 million (close to the claimed 2.2 million).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Santiago de Cali (Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtjaɣo ðe ˈkali]), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with an estimated 2.3 milli…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cali
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Cali Cartel (Spanish: Cartel de Cali) was a Colombian drug cartel based in Cali and the Valle del Cauca in southern Colombia. Its founders were the brothers Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, Miguel Rod…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cali_Cartel
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Club Profesional Deportivo Cali S.A., best known as Deportivo Cali, is a Colombian sports club based in Cali, most notable for its football team, which currently competes in the Categoría Primera A. D…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportivo_Cali
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Claim 3: “In Pereira, capital of the hard-hit state of Risaralda, authorities reported 66 dead”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of medical information about QT intervals and serial killers, providing no information about death tolls in Pereira.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Juan Carlos Villa Cardona (born 1981) is a Colombian serial killer. He confessed to being responsible for the death of 11 people: 10 older adults and one minor; the last three murders were perpetrated…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Villa
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos (25 January 1957 – 12 October 2023), also known as La Bestia ("The Beast") or Tribilín ("Goofy"), was a Colombian serial killer and sex offender who sexually assaulted 2…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Garavito
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pereira (Spanish pronunciation: [peˈɾejɾa]) is the capital city of the Colombian department of Risaralda. It is located in the foothills of the Andes in a coffee-producing area of Colombia officially …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pereira,_Colombia
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Claim 4: “1,000 members of the security forces would be deployed to the city by dawn”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the deployment of 1,000 security force members to Cali.
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Claim 5: “cracked apart one of the towers of a historic cathedral in the city of Manizales”
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France 24 and other web results confirm the partial collapse/cracking of a tower of the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Manizales.
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web search NEUTRAL — Damage sustained by Manizales Cathedral in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck Manizales, Colombia (AFP or licensors). Charity and solidarity. In the aftermath of the earthquake, the response …
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2026-08/colombia-a…
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web search NEUTRAL — From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Catholic cathedral in Manizales, Colombia.The first chapel in Manizales was built in 1849 on the same site as the current cathedral, measuring 8 by 4 meters, mad…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_Basilica_of_Our_Lady…
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web search NEUTRAL — Partial collapse of one of the towers of the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Manizales, Colombia, due to the earthquake of Aug. 10, 2026.
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/earthquake-in-colombia-causes…
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Claim 6: “At least 224 people have been killed”
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Three independent web sources explicitly state that the death toll reached at least 224 people, citing officials and the Colombian Association of Capital Cities (Asocapitales).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Megaphragma caribea is a species of wasp. It has been found acting as an egg parasitoid of Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis and Selenothrips rubrocinctus, which live on the plant Terminalia catappa in Colo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaphragma_caribea
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — USS Cod (SS/AGSS/IXSS-224) is a Gato-class submarine, the only vessel of the United States Navy to be named for the cod, an important and very popular food fish of the North Atlantic and North Pacific…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cod
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article is an alphabetical list of cities and towns in Colombia and their populations, according to the 2005 census. The list is sorted by department first, then by city. Capital cities are displ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Co…
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Claim 7: “a deadly 1999 earthquake that devastated the same coffee-growing region, killing more than 1,000 people”
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Claim 8: “The quake reduced multi-storey buildings to rubble in cities such as Pereira and Cali”
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Multiple sources, including France 24 and other web reports, confirm that multi-storey buildings were reduced to rubble in both Pereira and Cali.
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web search NEUTRAL — Pereira also bore some of the most visible destruction, with entire residential blocks reduced to piles of concrete and twisted steel. People work on a collapsed building after an earthquake in Cali, …
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0811/1587358-earthquake-c…
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web search NEUTRAL — Cali Mayor Alejandro Eder said emergency crews were responding to multiple building collapses. «We have at least 20 collapsed structures in Cali with people trapped inside. I have requested rescue tea…
https://www.laprensani.com/2026/08/10/english/3758325-7-4-ma…
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web search NEUTRAL — The quake reduced multi-storey buildings to rubble in cities such as Pereira and Cali, and cracked apart one of the towers of a historic cathedral in the city of Manizales.Dozens of buildings were lef…
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260811-colombia-earth…
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Claim 9: “Another 13 people died in Choco, the rural province closest to the quake’s epicenter”
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The provided evidence consists of general information about the number 13, a volleyball team, and the Chocó Department, but does not confirm the death toll of 13 people in Choco.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Chocó Department (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃoˈko]) is a department of the Pacific region of Colombia, known for hosting the largest Afro-Colombian population in the nation, and a large population of A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocó_Department
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Choco Mucho Flying Titans are a Filipino professional women's volleyball team owned by Rebisco. The team competes in the Premier Volleyball League (PVL), where they have played since their establi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choco_Mucho_Flying_Titans
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "Chocolate (Choco Choco)" is the debut single by German pop duo Soul Control, released in 2004 from their debut album Here We Go. The song was written and produced by Bruce Hammond Earlam and Ned Irvi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_(Choco_Choco)
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Claim 10: “Several of the top floors of one of the city’s hospitals – some dedicated to pediatric care – collapsed upon themselves”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions for the word 'top' and does not contain any factual information regarding hospital collapses in Cali.
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web search NEUTRAL — Look up top in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Top most commonly refers to: Top, a basic term of orientation, distinguished from bottom, front, back, and sides Spinning top, a ubiquitous traditional …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top
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web search NEUTRAL — .top is a generic top-level domain, officially delegated in ICANN 's new gTLD program on August 4, 2014. The domain name extension .top is managed and operated by the .top registry (registry backend Z…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.top
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web search NEUTRAL — TOP definition: 1. the highest place or part: 2. the flat upper surface of something: 3. in baseball, the first…. Learn more.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/top
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Claim 11: “President Abelardo De La Espriella, who assumed power just days ago, said 35 people died in Cali alone, while 188 were missing”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm the existence of a President Abelardo De La Espriella or his statements.
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Claim 12: “Cali, as well as Pereira, implemented curfews on Monday night”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 13: “catastrophic quakes that killed more than 6,300 in neighbouring Venezuela in June”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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