Overview
- The magnitude-7.4 earthquake on Monday struck western Colombia, causing widespread damage, hundreds of deaths and major phone and data outages that left many people unreachable.
- Family and friends used local radio and social media to publicize the search for Gonzalo Galván after they lost contact with him following the quake.
- Galván was located alive and well in Montería, his mother confirmed and he later told reporters that he and his daughter were away from the hardest-hit areas and had only felt a minor aftershock.
- Relatives said Galván had been traveling in an area with poor mobile coverage, which explains the lapse in communications that sparked the missing-person alert.
- Other Argentines initially reported missing were also found alive and rescue teams continue working in the worst-damaged cities while the Colombian government enforces a period of national mourning.