The Colombian geological service put the magnitude of the quake at 6.6 while its American counterpart USGS put it at 7.4.
A powerful earthquake rocked Colombia and other Latin American countries on Monday, causing unspecified damage and injuries and building evacuations in Bogotá.
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The Colombian geological service put the magnitude of the quake at 6.6 while its American counterpart USGS put it at 7.4, with an epicentre 100 km underground in the west of Colombia.
It was felt in Ecuador and as far away as Panama to the north and prompted building evacuations in Bogotá, reporters with the AFP news agency saw.
The governor of Colombia's Choco province wrote on X that there were injuries and serious damage to buildings in the department's capital Quibdo.
The mayor of Cali, Colombia's third largest city, also reported "major damage."
News outlets aired footage of some buildings with their facades ripped off by the quake.
In Bogotá some people ran out into the street in their pajamas as emergency sirens rang out, AFP reporters saw.
Twin earthquakes in Venezuela of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 on 24 June killed more than 6,000 people and caused devastating property damage.
This is a developing story and our journalists are working on further updates.