Ninety seconds, moving on the real wave of the earthquake as the Colombian Geological Survey recorded it. The sound is built from that same wave.
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Colombia · August 10, 2026Magnitude 7.4 · 07:34 in the morningThe real wave of this earthquake · recorded by the Colombian Geological Survey


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90 seconds in total
On August 10, 2026, the ground under western Colombia moved for 90 seconds.This is how long that is
Magnitude 7.4, 68 miles down, at 7:34 in the morning.USGS event us6000tjl2
26,600,000 people in Colombia felt it.331 dead · 361,353 people affected · UNGRD, August 25, 2026
Then it stopped.
This is what stayed.
Waking at three in the morning. Every night.83% of children with post-traumatic stress, three months on
A truck goes by and the body files it as the same sound.Startle response, months afterward
Tired from the moment you wake up.74% of that same group, tired with no physical cause
The stomach that hurts and the headache no doctor explains.63% and 58%
Not going to the market anymore. Not really deciding to.Avoidance, the symptom nobody reports
“I didn’t lose anything. Why am I like this?”The guilt of the one who came out fine
Five years after Kumamoto, a third of the survivors still could not sleep.35% · 8,966 survivors, Kumamoto
It stopped after 90 seconds. For millions of them it hasn’t.
What this book brings the fund pays for scholarships for people who lived through the earthquake.
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The real wave of the earthquake, as the Colombian Geological Survey recorded it that morning. The sound is built from this same wave.
Pereira, the day after the earthquake · World Central Kitchen, CC BY 4.0
A book from Colombia · August 10, 2026
The worst cracks an earthquake leaves are the ones you cannot see.
By Felipe López Mora · 139 pages
Your purchase gives someone who lived through the earthquake a scholarship to build a new life.
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Xiruela is the continuing education center of HIKI, in alliance with the Education Institute of the Colombian Red Cross, Valle del Cauca Branch. Everything it teaches helps people build a new life after the earthquake.
What is in the book
“But there is a second count that nobody is running, and no budget line is waiting for it.”
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Manizales, Caldas, Colombia, the night of the earthquake · World Central Kitchen, CC BY 4.0, cropped
Why it is needed
Source: National Disaster Risk Management Unit (UNGRD), report of August 25, 2026. See all sources
Estimates: rates from Peng Y et al., Journal of Affective Disorders, 2025, applied to the population the USGS counted at intensity VII and VIII. See the method
“I kept asking God: give me the chance to see the sunlight again.”
“I could not even take one step. The building collapsed.”
“Our school was damaged in the earthquake, so my daughters can’t attend classes. My daughters feel like their future is falling behind.”
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Xiruela is the continuing education center of HIKI, in alliance with the Education Institute of the Colombian Red Cross, Valle del Cauca Branch. It offers live courses and diplomas, and the scholarships this book pays for are places in those programs.
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People who lived through the earthquake of August 10, 2026. They apply at Xiruela before enrolling, and a committee reviews each case and answers within five working days. We publish the books sold, the scholarships given and the programme of each one.
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Western Colombia at night after the earthquake, seen from a satellite · NOAA and CSU/CIRA, public domain