New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- A powerful earthquake rocked Colombia and neighboring Latin American countries on Monday. The Mayor of Pereira, Mauricio Salazar said that

the death toll has risen to at least 20. In the town of Pereira, 18 people were killed and others were trapped in buildings that collapsed while two people were killed in Manizales.

The Colombian geological service and its American counterpart USGS put the magnitude at 7.4, with an epicenter 100 km (60 miles) underground in the west of the country. Colombia had initially put it at 6.6. Colombian officials said they did not fear a tsunami after the early-morning quake, which was also felt in Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela.

It also prompted building evacuations in Bogota. The Gove...