132 dead, hospitals damaged, flights disrupted in Colombia quakeEarthquake disrupts flights across ColombiaPatients trapped in Cali hospitalUnited States to provide aidA nation prone to earthquakesAt least 132 people were killed and 570 others injured after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Colombia on Monday, according to the Colombian Association of Capital Cities.By Monday afternoon, people had begun reporting loved ones missing on digital databases, as they had after previous earthquakes in Venezuela. One database listed more than 2,000 missing people, most of them from Cali and Pereira, with the number continuing to rise.Pereira was the worst-hit city, reporting 60 deaths, the association said after a disaster response meeting with President Gustavo Petro.Pereira, a city of around 500,000 people, lies less than 64 km from the earthquake’s epicentre. Tremors were felt across several parts of Colombia, including the capital Bogota, where alarms sounded and people evacuated buildings and gathered on the streets as a precaution.President Abelardo de la Espriella said 1,577 residential buildings had been damaged, while 37 others were completely destroyed. Authorities said normal operations would resume once the infrastructure was deemed safe, as the airport restrictions underscored the wider disruption caused by the earthquake across western Colombia.Several patients were trapped under rubble after parts of a hospital in Cali, western Colombia, collapsed following the earthquake, according to local officials.Sections of Cali’s University Hospital, including the pediatrics department, “have collapsed,” Valle del Cauca Governor Dilian Francisca Toro told local media. The Colombian Geological Service said 21 aftershocks had been recorded by late Monday and warned that more tremors were possible.The country’s coffee-growing region was devastated by a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in 1999, which killed more than 1,000 people, with Armenia and Pereira among the worst-hit areas.