2026年8月12日 美国东部时间晚上8:22 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
周三，大量来自地区伙伴的援助开始运往哥伦比亚。此前这场强震摧毁建筑、扭曲道路、压毁车辆，废墟中的幸存者搜救工作愈发紧迫。
这场灾难考验了哥伦比亚新总统阿瓦拉德洛·德拉斯皮列拉及其政府，他们正全力应对灾情，同时民间社会也在努力为受灾最严重的社区提供援助。
德拉斯皮列拉周三晚间表示，周一袭击哥伦比亚西部的7.4级地震已造成至少265人死亡。总统称，据报告有近500人失踪，但民间运营的数据库显示这一数字超过4100人。德拉斯皮列拉表示，总计超过25800个家庭受到影响。
“我们的工作重点是失踪人员，”他在哥伦比亚首都对记者说道。
这张航拍照片显示，2026年8月12日，救援人员在哥伦比亚卡利一座地震倒塌的建筑废墟中搜寻幸存者。劳尔·阿尔沃莱达 / 法新社/盖蒂图片社
救援队伍继续在受灾最严重的卡利、佩雷拉、马尼萨莱斯和基布多等城市的废墟中搜寻，随着时间流逝，找到并救出存活幸存者的希望愈发渺茫。救援机构认为，前48至72小时是搜救幸存者的关键时段，但如果被困人员能够获得食物和水，这一期限可以延长。
周三下午，卡利市市长亚历杭德罗·埃德尔对记者表示，救援队伍仍在废墟下发现生命迹象，正全力开展营救。
“接下来的20小时是找到并救出存活人员的最关键时段，”他说，“每一分钟都至关重要。”
社交媒体视频显示，周一在卡利一座倒塌建筑的废墟中救出了一名婴儿。视频中，可以听到一名幸存者对救援人员说：“我和一名婴儿在一起”，同时传来婴儿的哭声。
在佩雷拉，救援人员于周二晚间从废墟中救出了32岁的丹妮拉·拉戈，这场耗时12小时的复杂营救行动中，救援人员在废墟上开凿出一个小口，解救了被卡住的手臂，一名医生为她注射静脉输液以稳定病情。这名年轻女子裹着蓝色毯子被抬上救护车，消防员们相拥庆祝，旁观者也欢呼起来。
来自佛罗里达州迈阿密的搜救志愿者克雷格·德梅永参与了此次营救行动。当被问及看到女子获救时的感受时，德梅永告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻：“那有点像橄榄球比赛的时刻，大家都在握手，‘太棒了，太棒了！’”
另一个时刻则充满了悲痛：在同一城市，一名男子被从建筑废墟中救出，已经失去生命体征，身上盖着白色毯子。
在搜救行动中，必须让数百名旁观者和志愿者在繁华的城市中保持安静，以便倾听最微弱的生命迹象。
在佩雷拉的一次行动中，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的摄像机捕捉到志愿者组成人链，数小时来徒手传递一块块废墟。随后，在一段静默时刻，一支哥伦比亚陆军部队使用专业设备和搜救犬发现了生命迹象，引发数百人欢呼雀跃。
救援人员在废墟中搜寻幸存者时保持安静，2026年8月12日，哥伦比亚佩雷拉一座地震倒塌的建筑废墟。路易斯·阿科斯塔 / 法新社/盖蒂图片社
哥伦比亚民众担忧余震可能性
在受灾最严重的咖啡种植区，当局已将体育场馆、学校和其他公共建筑改造为难民营，收容数千名流离失所的哥伦比亚民众。在佩雷拉和卡利，许多家庭在公园过夜，一些人担心余震或受损房屋倒塌，另一些人则无家可归。
哥伦比亚地质服务部门记录显示，自地震发生以来已发生130次余震。
“我们拥有最重要的东西：容身之所、食物、水，就我而言，还有医疗护理，”48岁的伊迪丝·佩纳戈斯说道，她和十几岁的儿子住在佩雷拉公园内搭建的白色帐篷中。
安第斯大学地震学家、地球科学教授罗德里戈·莱昂·洛亚表示，同一区域再次发生同等震级地震的概率较低，但他不排除会有更多地震活动。
“我们要记住，哥伦比亚遍布活跃断层带，”他说，“问题不在于是否会再次发生地震，而在于哥伦比亚的另一个地震源何时会发生同等震级的地震。”
在许多地区，包括地震震中乔科省，由于长期存在的深度贫困和内战危机——数十年来该危机已造成大规模被迫流离失所——官方的救灾响应变得复杂。由于手机服务中断，许多受影响社区地处偏远，只能通过水路抵达，因此地震在这个丛林密布的西北部地区造成的实际影响 largely 仍 largely 未知。
“这场地震加剧了本已严峻的人道主义局势，需要加大对人道主义救援行动的支持力度，”挪威难民理事会哥伦比亚主任乔瓦尼·里佐说道。
地震引发大规模国际援助响应
许多救援机构早已在乔科省开展工作，支持政府与左翼叛军之间的2016年和平协议，并应对该地区此后持续存在的其他武装团体暴力事件。
联合国驻哥伦比亚协调员玛丽亚·何塞·托雷斯表示，这些人道主义工作者能够迅速转向救灾工作。
“我们在当地设有办事处。因此，我认为我们与民众同在的能力呈指数级增长，”托雷斯在周二的一份声明中说道。
与此同时，其他国家和海外非营利组织的援助也持续涌入。
美国国务院在其网站上宣布，救灾团队已于周一抵达哥伦比亚。美国还提供了超过1500万美元的援助。
与此同时，墨西哥表示已派出两架军用飞机，运送19.5吨不易腐烂的食品和19名墨西哥安全部队人员前往佩雷拉，并计划在未来几天内再运送39吨援助物资。另有255名军事专家和20只搜救犬处于待命状态，必要时将前往哥伦比亚。
萨尔瓦多总统纳伊布·布克尔提出派出两架飞机，运送100吨援助物资。
周三，教皇利奥十四世感谢所有为恢复工作做出贡献的人，并表示他为遇难、受伤或受地震影响的人们祈祷。
“我想向遭受近期地震影响的哥伦比亚兄弟姐妹表达我的声援，”他说道。
8月16日，艺术家马克·安东尼、路易斯·丰西、查亚内、费德、杰伊·惠勒等人将在迈阿密举办一场音乐会，为哥伦比亚地震受害者以及6月袭击委内瑞拉并造成数千人死亡的两次地震受害者筹款。
Colombia earthquake death toll rises as frantic search for survivors continues
August 12, 2026 8:22 PM EDT / CBS/AP
Tons of aid from regional partners began to roll into Colombia on Wednesday, as the search for survivors in the rubble of a powerful earthquake grew more desperate after the temblor razed buildings, buckled roads and crushed cars.
The devastation has tested Colombia’s new president, Abelardo de la Espriella, and his government as it scrambles to respond to the disaster and civil society as it pushes to provide aid to the most affected communities.
De la Espriella said Wednesday evening that at least 265 people died in the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck the country’s west on Monday. The president said nearly 500 people were reported missing, though civilian-run databases put that number at more than 4,100. In total, more than 25,800 families were impacted, de la Espriella said.
“Our efforts are focused on the disappeared,” he told journalists in Colombia’s capital.
This aerial view shows rescuers searching for survivors amid the rubble of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Cali, Colombia, on Aug. 12, 2026. Raul Arboleda /AFP via Getty Images
Teams continued to pick through the rubble in the hardest-hit cities of Cali, Pereira, Manizales and Quibdo, as time ticked away for victims to be found, and rescued, alive. Aid agencies consider the first 48 to 72 hours crucial for retrieving survivors, though that threshold can be extended if those trapped have access to food and water.
On Wednesday afternoon, Alejandro Eder, the mayor of Cali, told reporters that rescue teams continue to find signs of people alive under the rubble and are racing to save them.
“The next 20 hours are the most critical to find and rescue people alive,” he said. “Every minute is vital.”
Social media videos showed a baby being rescued Monday from the rubble of a collapsed building in Cali. In the videos, a survivor can be heard telling rescuers, “I’m with a baby,” as the cries of the infant are heard.
In Pereira, rescuers pulled 32-year-old Daniela Largo alive from the rubble late Tuesday, capping a complex 12-hour rescue in which crews carved a small opening in the debris to free her pinned arm and a doctor administered IV fluids to stabilize her. Wrapped in a blue blanket, the young woman was carried to an ambulance as firefighters embraced and onlookers cheered.
Craig De Meillon, a search-and-rescue volunteer from Miami, Florida, was part of the rescue effort. “It was kind of like a football moment, when everyone is like shaking hands, like, ‘Yes, yes!’” De Meillon told CBS News when asked how it felt to see the woman freed.
Another moment was marked by mourning, as a man was pulled from a building in the same city, lifeless and covered in a white blanket.
During search operations, hundreds of onlookers and volunteers must be kept quiet enough in the middle of a bustling city to listen for the faintest sign of life.
In one instance in Pereira, CBS News cameras captured volunteers forming human bucket brigades, passing piece after piece of rubble by hand for hours. And then, during one of those moments of silence, a Colombian army unit, using specialized equipment and sniffing canines, spotted signs of life, prompting hundreds of people to erupt in cheers.
Rescuers call for silence in the search for survivors amid the rubble of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Pereira, Colombia, on Aug. 12, 2026. Luis Acosta /AFP via Getty Images
Colombians fear possibility of aftershocks
Across the coffee-growing region, among the areas worst affected by the quake, authorities have converted sports arenas, schools and other public buildings into shelters for thousands of displaced Colombians. In Pereira and Cali, families have been sleeping in parks, some fearing aftershocks or the collapse of their damaged homes, others without homes to return to.
Colombia’s geological service has documented 130 aftershocks since the quake.
“We have the most important things: a roof over our heads, food, water and, in my case, medical care,” said Edith Penagos, 48, who was staying with her teenage son in one of the white tents set up in a Pereira park.
Rodrigo León Loya, a seismologist and geosciences professor at the University of the Andes, said the probability of an earthquake of a similar magnitude occurring in the same area is low but he would not rule out more seismic activity.
“Let’s remember that Colombia is full of active fault lines,” he said. “The question isn’t whether it can happen again. The question is rather when an earthquake of similar magnitude will occur at another of Colombia’s seismic sources.”
In many areas, including the epicenter of the quake, Choco, the official response to the disaster has been complicated by the ongoing crises of deep poverty and civil warfare that have created waves of forced displacement for decades. The true impact of the earthquake in the jungled northwest remained largely unknown because cell service has been lost and many of the likely affected communities are remote, accessible only by river.
“This earthquake compounds an already severe humanitarian situation, and there is a need for increased support for the humanitarian response,” said Giovanni Rizzo, Colombia director for the Norwegian Refugee Council.
Earthquake prompts large international aid response
Many aid organizations were already on the ground in Choco supporting a 2016 peace accord between the government and leftist rebels, and responding to violence in the region involving other armed groups that has persisted since then.
Those humanitarian workers were able to quickly pivot to disaster relief, said María José Torres, the U.N. resident coordinator in Colombia.
Volunteers take part in a supply collection drive for the earthquake victims at the Nemesio Camacho ‘El Campin’ stadium, in Bogota, Colombia, on Aug. 12, 2026. Esteban Vega La-Rotta /AFP via Getty Images
“We have a presence on the ground. Therefore, our ability to be there, present with the people, I think, has increased exponentially,” Torres said in a statement Tuesday.
At the same time, aid from other countries and nonprofits abroad continued to roll in.
The U.S. State Department posted on its website that disaster response teams started to arrive in Colombia on Monday. The U.S. has also offered over $15 million in aid.
Mexico, meanwhile, said it had sent two military aircraft carrying 19.5 tons of nonperishable food and 19 members of Mexican security forces to Pereira, and it plans to send another 39 tons of aid in the coming days. A further 255 military specialists and 20 dogs are on standby to be sent to Colombia if needed.
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele offered to send two planes loaded with 100 tons of aid.
On Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV thanked those contributing to recovery efforts and said he is praying for those killed, injured or otherwise affected by the earthquake.
“I want to express my solidarity with my Colombian sisters and brothers who have suffered the effects of the recent earthquake,” he said.
On Aug. 16, artists Marc Anthony, Luis Fonsi, Chayanne, Feid, Jay Wheeler and others will perform a concert in Miami to benefit victims of both the Colombia earthquake and the two earthquakes that hit Venezuela in June and killed thousands of people.
