Daniela Largo rescued after 36 hours under Colombia earthquake rubble
Rescuers in Pereira pulled the 32-year-old woman from a collapsed building as the death toll reached at least 200
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Daniela Largo rescued after 36 hours under Colombia earthquake rubble
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What this story says
- A 32-year-old woman, Daniela Largo, was rescued alive after about 36 hours trapped under rubble in Pereira, Colombia, following a magnitude 7.4 earthquake on 10 August 2026.
- The earthquake’s death toll was reported between 200 and 216, with rescue operations ongoing across western Colombia.
- Left-rated outlets led on the survival story and the revised death toll, while centre-rated reports focused on the rescue operation’s duration and visuals.
- The single right-rated digest included the woman’s name and the emotional response of rescuers but did not mention the death toll’s downward revision.
Who covered it
Percentages are shares of the 11 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 11 of the 22 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .
Trust
48/100
Craft
75/100
Hype
30/100
22 sources · methodology
Thin on the right so far
Only 1 of the 11 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.
This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.
A 32-year-old woman was rescued alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Pereira, Colombia, on 12 August 2026. The rescue followed a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck the country on 10 August. The woman, identified as Daniela Largo by multiple digests, spent about 36 hours trapped before rescuers reached her.
The earthquake’s death toll was reported between 200 and 216. Rescue teams continued searching collapsed buildings across western Colombia for additional survivors. The operation to free Largo involved advancing several metres through debris, as described by antena3.ro.
Disagreements in the reports
The reports disagree on the exact duration of Largo’s entrapment. Novinky.cz and Metrópoles stated she was trapped for 36 hours, while Globo and CartaCapital reported more than 30 hours. The Objective reported seven hours of searching, though this appears to refer to the duration of the rescue operation rather than the time she spent trapped.
What the coverage left out
None of the digests from the right-rated or centre-rated outlets mentioned the detail that the death toll was revised downward to 216, which was included in the left-rated digests from La Presse and CartaCapital. The centre-rated digest from El Confidencial focused on a separate rescue in Cali, omitting the name of the woman rescued in Pereira. The single right-rated digest did not include the 10-hour gap between locating and rescuing Largo, a detail present in left-rated digests.
216
Death toll from the earthquake, as revised downward by Colombian authorities
Reported by La Presse and CartaCapital
Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 6 times, most recently on 12 Aug 2026, 13:30, and will add the sides that appear.
How each side covered it
Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.
Left
6 rated outlets
- The six left-rated digests led on the survival story and the revised death toll. La Presse and CartaCapital both mentioned the death toll being revised downward to 216. Africa News and Novinky.cz included the detail that rescuers located Largo 10 hours before reaching her. The digests framed the rescue as a rare moment of hope amid a devastating disaster.
- The Hindu’s full report, the only one available for this side, did not provide additional wording or framing beyond the headline, which described the rescue as "Rescuers pull woman trapped under debris for 36 hours."
Centre
4 rated outlets
- The three centre-rated digests focused on the duration of the rescue operation and the visual aspect of the story. Euronews and France24 both highlighted that the woman was rescued after 36 hours. Euronews included a video element in its headline, while France24 described the rescuers as "exhausted" and the search as "desperate." El Confidencial’s digest mentioned a separate rescue in Cali, where a 31-year-old woman survived by beating on a closet to be found.
Right
1 rated outlet
- The single right-rated digest from Globo led on the emotional response of the rescue. It described the moment Largo was pulled from the rubble as occurring "in the midst of shouts and applause," and noted that the rescuers were "exhausted." The digest also included Largo’s name and the detail that she spent more than 35 hours under the rubble. Unlike the left-rated digests, it did not mention the death toll’s downward revision.
Read it at the source
22 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.
Left
6- Earthquake in Colombia | A Survivor Emerging From the Rubble, the Toll Revised Downwards (opens La Presse in a new tab)
- Colombia quake rescuers save woman after 36 hours trapped in rubble (opens Africa News in a new tab)
Africa News — is Africa News biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Woman Rescued Alive in Colombia After Surviving 36 Hours Under Earthquake Rubble (opens Novinky.cz in a new tab)
Novinky.cz — is Novinky.cz biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Colombia earthquake: Rescuers pull woman trapped under debris for 36 hours (opens The Hindu in a new tab)
- Woman Is Rescued Alive After 35 Hours Under Rubble in Colombia (opens UOL in a new tab)
- Woman Is Rescued Under Rubble More than 30 Hours After the Earthquake in Colombia (opens CartaCapital in a new tab)
CartaCapital — is CartaCapital biased? Our profile of this outlet
Centre
4- Woman, kitten pulled alive from Colombia quake debris 36 hours in (opens The Globe & Mail in a new tab)
The Globe & Mail — is The Globe & Mail biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Video. Colombia quake rescuers save woman after 36 hours trapped in rubble (opens Euronews in a new tab)
- 31-Year-Old Diana Troncoso Survives More than 12 Hours Under the Rubble in Cali After the Earthquake in Colombia: She Beat a Closet to Be Found (opens El Confidencial in a new tab)
El Confidencial — is El Confidencial biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Colombia rescuers find woman alive, two days after deadly earthquake (opens France24 in a new tab)
Right
1Not rated
11- Colombia: Daniela Saves From I Live Etter 36 Timer I Ruinene (opens NRK in a new tab)
- A Woman Trapped 35 Hours Under the Ruins of a Hotel in Colombia Is Rescued Alive (opens EL NACIONAL in a new tab)
EL NACIONAL — is EL NACIONAL biased? Our profile of this outlet
- "Don't Make Noise to Hear the Survivors": Research Continues After the Earthquake in Colombia (opens Radio France in a new tab)
Radio France — is Radio France biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Woman Rescued Alive Two Days After Colombia Earthquake, Hopes for More Survivors Fading (opens iDNES.cz in a new tab)
- Woman Is Rescued Alive in Colombia After 36 Hours Under Rubble (opens CNN Brasil in a new tab)
CNN Brasil — is CNN Brasil biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Colombia: Woman Rescued Alive From Earthquake Rubble After 35 Hours (opens Portal Mix Vale in a new tab)
Portal Mix Vale — is Portal Mix Vale biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Woman Pulled Alive From Rubble Two Days After Colombia Earthquake (opens Deník.cz in a new tab)
Deník.cz
- Miraculous Rescue From an Earthquake-Destroyed Building in Columbia: a Woman Was Removed From the Rubble After 30 Hours (opens antena3.ro in a new tab)
antena3.ro — is antena3.ro biased? Our profile of this outlet
Show 3 more
- A Woman Is Rescued Alive in Pereira, Colombia, After Seven Hours of Searching (opens The Objective in a new tab)
The Objective — is The Objective biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Earthquake in Colombia: After the Violent Earthquake, a Woman Survives 30 Hours Under the Rubble (opens midilibre.fr in a new tab)
midilibre.fr — is midilibre.fr biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Earthquake: Woman Is Rescued After 36 Hours Under Rubble in Colombia (opens Metrópoles in a new tab)
Metrópoles
Questions about this coverage
- How did the left and right cover Daniela Largo rescued after 36 hours under Colombia earthquake rubble?
- Of the 11 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 55% are rated left, 36% are rated centre, 9% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 22. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
- Is Daniela Largo rescued after 36 hours under Colombia earthquake rubble left or right?
- Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 11 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
- Is the coverage of Daniela Largo rescued after 36 hours under Colombia earthquake rubble biased?
- Daniela Largo rescued after 36 hours under Colombia earthquake rubble is one event reported by 22 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
- Which side is not reporting Daniela Largo rescued after 36 hours under Colombia earthquake rubble?
- When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
- Which outlets covered Daniela Largo rescued after 36 hours under Colombia earthquake rubble?
- 22 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
- How long was Daniela Largo trapped under the rubble?
- Daniela Largo was trapped for about 36 hours before rescuers reached her, according to reports from Novinky.cz and Metrópoles. Some outlets, such as Globo, reported more than 30 hours, while The Objective described seven hours of searching, likely referring to the rescue operation itself.
- What was the death toll from the Colombia earthquake?
- The death toll from the earthquake was reported between 200 and 216. La Presse and CartaCapital noted that the official count was revised downward to 216. This detail was included in left-rated digests but omitted by centre-rated and right-rated outlets.
- Which outlets reported the downward revision of the death toll?
- The downward revision of the death toll to 216 was reported by left-rated outlets La Presse and CartaCapital. This detail was not mentioned in the centre-rated or right-rated digests.
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