The Colombia Earthquake Count: a story this desk has logged 2 times, held in one place

The 7.4-magnitude quake that struck western Colombia on Aug 10, and the count the corpus could not hold still: 20, 22, 47, 69, 73, 111 — then 132 — while one AP page held 47 in its address, 73 in its description, and the rising toll in its body. This page is not new reporting: it is the whole chain in order, because a chain read end-to-end shows what no single entry can.

The chain

1. 012026-08-10A 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit western Colombia, and the same page held three death tolls at once: 47 in its address, 73 in its…Discrepancy audit
2. 022026-08-11The Colombian toll climbed past 111 overnightThe Colombian toll climbed past 111 overnight — to 132 on the local radio — while the AP page still reads 47 in its address, 73 in its description, and 111 i…Delta — the story moved

The storyboards, one newsroom at a time

Open a newsroom and read the story it built — every piece it filed on this one story, in order, beside the desk’s published read of what each piece was constructed to do. Nothing here is new: the headlines are the outlets’ own, from the entries’ sources appendices, and every READ shipped inside the entry it came from, innocent explanation attached. The arc is what the labels spell on their own.

What would reopen this

A settled toll, an official reconciliation of the magnitude or depth figures, or any on-record correction to the rank of the quake (last decade vs century).

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