Hours aft the earthquake deed Pereira, a nonmigratory of the Parque Industrial neighborhood, adjacent the city's airport, told BBC Mundo astir the daze being experienced successful the area.
"It's intolerable to get astir the metropolis center. In Bolívar Square (the city's main square), astatine slightest 1 gathering collapsed. Furthermore, determination are structures wherever buses and trucks are trapped, and radical are acrophobic those structures volition illness arsenic well," helium said.
"We're each successful shock. It was truly awful."
Jorge Eduardo Rojas, politician of Manizales, said 5 radical had been killed successful the city.
Sixty buildings successful Manizales had partially oregon wholly collapsed.
Cautioning astir further aftershocks, Rojas urged the nationalist not to stock concatenation messages oregon societal media posts from chartless sources, arsenic they "may incorporate mendacious oregon unverified information... which could origin greater interest and alarm among the public".
On Tuesday, assistance and enactment continued to beryllium offered to Colombia from the planetary community.
A connection from a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, stated that helium "expresses his solidarity with the radical and authorities of Colombia" and that it moving to enactment the government's response.
Spain's Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, reported that 164 Spaniards were inactive missing.
At the moment, helium added, determination are nary reports of injuries oregon deaths of its citizens.
The Donald Trump administration, which backed President Abelardo de la Espriella successful his palmy predetermination earlier this year, announced this day a donation of $15.5m (£11.5m) to Colombia.
Offers of assistance person besides travel from Ecuador, Brazil, El Salvador, and Venezuela.
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