Image © Johannes Bud via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0On Monday, 10 August 2026, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Colombia's Pacific and Caribbean coasts. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), this is the strongest earthquake in Colombia since the 1979 Tumaco earthquake, and is surpassed in magnitude only by a 1906 earthquake on the same coast. The cities of Pereira, Cali, Manizales, Quibdó, and Armenia have accounted for the highest number of reports of infrastructural damage so far. Panama is outside the main seismic region and experienced only light tremors, while Ecuador previously experienced a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in 2016. This adds to a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck Japan's northeastern coast within the same 48-hour period in June, and a magnitude 5.6 event recorded in Northern California.