Deep Quake Shakes Central Colombia*

Sunday May 6, 2007 7:01 AM

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - An earthquake deep below the Andean ridge shook
central Colombia just before midnight on Saturday. Buildings in Bogota
rattled for several seconds but no damage or injuries were reported.

The 5.5-magnitude temblor centered some 155 miles northeast of Bogota
and was approximately 110 miles underground, said Dale Grant of the U.S.
Geological Survey in Golden, Colo.

``It's deep so there shouldn't be any major damage but it should be
widely felt,'' he said.

Colombia's disaster prevention agency director, Luz Amalda Pulida, said
in a radio interview that the quake was centered below the town of Betulia.