Colombia's Quake Toll Just Passed 250. Here's Who's Showing Up — from Washington to Doral

Rescue teams and volunteers rest during the search for survivors in a collapsed house after an earthquake in Cali, Colombia, on August 11, 2026. Colombian volunteers and rescuers cleared rubble with their bare hands to search for survivors early on August 11 after the country's strongest earthquake in a decade killed at least 169 people and smashed dozens of buildings. (Credit: Photo by JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP via Getty Images)

Colombia is absorbing the worst earthquake to hit the country in more than a decade, and the international response has moved almost as fast as the disaster itself. Within hours of Monday's magnitude-7.4 quake, Washington had pledged millions of dollars, the European Union had turned its satellite network toward the disaster zone, and a string of Latin American governments were offering rescue teams — all while South Florida's Colombian community organized a parallel relief effort of its own.

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