A 7.4-magnitude earthquake tore through western Colombia early Monday morning, killing at least 20 people and bringing down buildings across a stretch of the country running from the Pacific lowlands up into the coffee-growing highlands. No single nationwide figure had been released as of Monday morning, with officials having yet issued an official confirmed death count while search teams kept working through the rubble. Seismic Agencies on Depth and StrengthThe USGS placed the quake's depth at 107 kilometers, while Colombia's own geological service put it slightly shallower, at 96 kilometers. Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as Colombia's president only three days earlier, on August 7, succeeding Gustavo Petro. Colombia's own history offers a grimmer benchmark still: a shallower, magnitude 6.2 quake near Armenia in 1999 left more than 1,000 people dead and gutted much of that coffee town.