{"id":58475,"date":"2026-08-11T13:30:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/familys-narrow-escape-before-earthquake-shakes-home\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T13:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:30:58","slug":"familys-narrow-escape-before-earthquake-shakes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/familys-narrow-escape-before-earthquake-shakes-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Family&#8217;s narrow escape before earthquake shakes home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A family captured video of the moment they fled their home during an earthquake in Colombia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liliana P\u00e9rez Ocampo and her family escaped moments before their home was rocked by a 7.4 magnitude quake on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At first, we thought it was just a mild tremor like the ones that usually happen in Colombia, but when more than 30 seconds passed and everything was shaking harder, we realised it was an earthquake,&#8221; the mother-of-four told the BBC World Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her family, including two young children at school, are safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the end, material things can be replaced,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The most important thing is life, and we have that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With at least 169 people killed, this has been the strongest earthquake to hit Colombia in the 21st Century, according to the country&#8217;s Geological Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c20e360lx0vo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">More on this story.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cwyl3w1e6zxo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A family captured video of the moment they fled their home during an earthquake in Colombia. Liliana P\u00e9rez Ocampo and her family escaped moments before their home was rocked by a 7.4 magnitude quake on Monday. &#8220;At first, we thought it was just a mild tremor like the ones that usually happen in Colombia, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58477,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58475\/revisions\/58477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}