Letitia AtkinsonNewsroom editor·Bay of Plenty Times·10 Aug, 2026 08:05 PM2 mins to readA powerful earthquake rocked Colombia and neighbouring Latin American countries, with many people confirmed dead in first reports. Video / NZ HeraldBay of Plenty photographer David Hall has described a terrifying ordeal after being caught in a powerful earthquake that killed more than 100 people in Colombia.
Hall was in the town of Salento, about an hour south of the city of Pereira, when the magnitude 7.4 quake struck early on
