“We are fine, a little scared because the tremor felt very strong, the bed was moving from one side to the other and we do not know if we should evacuate”, reported a citizen.
A similar situation was recorded in the plots of municipalities such as Rionegro, where some residents woke up at dawn due to this phenomenon. “Here on the farm it felt strong, we were very scared. It was very hard”.
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Through social networks, several Santandereans have registered the earthquake, At the same time, they indicated that its magnitude was such that the tallest buildings in the metropolitan area moved from one side to the other.
Quake it was also felt in some municipalities of Boyacá and Tolima, although with less intensity.
At the moment, the relief agencies, headed by the Santander Risk and Disaster Management Unitthey will activate the attention systems and will start the sweeps for all the municipalities of the region, in order to determine if there was damage to the infrastructure or if people were injured.
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It should be noted that Santander is the second region in Latin America with the most seismic activity, due to the ‘Seismic Nest of Bucaramanga’, for which, according to figures revealed by the Observatory of Seismology of the Colombian East, Every day between 12 and 20 earthquakes are recorded.
Although most of these earthquakes are of low intensity, this is one of the strongest in recent months and It is expected that in the next few hours the Seismology Observatory will issue a report on this tremor.
