The magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck Colombia on August 10 had its epicenter in San José del Palmar, Chocó, leaving more than 300 dead. ^[1] The Colombian Geological Service (SGC) reported that the August 10 earthquake caused the death of 331 people and the collapse of 709 homes, in addition to 36,336 other destroyed structures. ^[2] The Colombian Geological Service (SGC) identified two distinct seismic behaviors following the earthquake: aftershocks in San José del Palmar and a new seismic swarm in other municipalities. ^[3] The National Seismic Network of Colombia (RSNC) reported that more than 1,340 earthquakes have occurred since the main event, with over 200 sharing the same epicenter. ^[4] The seismic swarm has registered more than 900 earthquakes concentrated in Sipí, Istmina, Medio San Juan, and the Litoral del San Juan. ^[5] The earthquake's epicenter was located in San José del Palmar, Chocó, and it generated a complex seismic dynamic in the subsurface. ^[6] The SGC stated that preliminary analyses by the National Seismological Network suggest the August 10 earthquake produced a rupture within the Nazca plate at a depth of 103 km. ^[7] The SGC stated that the magnitude 7.4 earthquake, with a depth of 103 kilometers, released energy equivalent to 125 or 130 bombs like the one dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. ^[8]