The 7.4-magnitude quake, which killed more than 100 people and damaged hundreds of buildings, was the strongest recorded in Colombia in a decade.

Just weeks after twin earthquakes devastated Venezuela, neighboring Colombia suffered its own deadly temblor Monday, leaving responders, volunteers and loved ones desperately searching for missing people and tending to those displaced or injured.

The 7.4-magnitude earthquake, which hit about 250 miles west of Bogotá, caused serious damage to infrastructure and left people trapped in collapsed buildings.

Rescue teams and volunteers piled into Cali, Colombia, after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake and aftershocks hit the country’s west.Credit...Joaquin Sarmiento/Agence France-Presse — Supported by By The New York Times Shortly after 7:30 on Monday morning,

A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake has struck western Colombia, killing at least 111 people and damaging hundreds of buildings

A deadly temblor devastated Armenia in 1999, spurring a reconstruction that allowed the city to build back stronger. When disaster struck this time, it was prepared.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Por segunda vez en dos meses, el suelo tembló en Sudamérica. Una vez más, las familias inundaron las redes sociales con súplicas de ayuda para encontrar a seres queridos desaparecidos bajo edificios aplastados.

The search for life in the rubble of Colombia’s powerful earthquake is growing more desperate as search teams push up against a key time threshold to locate survivors before it's too late

Rescues of people buried under rubble after a massive earthquake struck Colombia are becoming less frequent three days after the temblor. Local authorities are doing what they can for survivors.

Scores of buildings collapsed in the strongest temblor to strike the South American country in at least a decade.