From Chocó’s isolated communities to Pereira’s shattered neighborhoods and Cali’s damaged economic corridors, Colombia’s strongest earthquake this century has revealed that seismic danger may begin underground. Rescue workers are on the scene at a building that collapsed due to the 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck the country, in Cali, ColombiaEFE/ Ernesto Guzmán Jr Pereira businesses reopened amid broken glass because staying closed could be more economically dangerous than returning to a damaged building and calling that resilience risks romanticizing necessity.