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Witnesses reported feeling the shaking across the capital and all the way to the coast in Barranquilla, as well as in Ecuador to the south. Jorge Moncayo, a 64-year-old taxi driver in Cali, said he saw plumes of dust shoot up across the city from his home. "My entire house shook," he said. "I've never lived through such a powerful earthquake." Pereira's mayor, Mauricio Salazar, told a local radio station that at least 18 people had died in the city and that many more were trapped under "a massive quantity of collapsed buildings." At the airport in Pereira, videos showed pieces of the ceiling falling down on travelers taking shelter and screaming, and people running through rubble in a panic. The earthquake prompted evacuations as far away as Bogotá.
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