Colombian chief of defence Hugo Alejandro López Barreto said that “sadly, as a consequence of this tragic accident, 66 of our armed forces members died”.
Nearly 300 people were injured, while more than 170,000 were affected by the quake, which struck Cebu province on Tuesday evening.
The death toll from severe storms in the midwest and southern United States has risen to at least 20, according to local media.
On Monday, there was still no electricity supply and no water in many villages in the flooded regions of central Greece.
Four days into the earthquake in the Turkish-Syrian border region, the reported death toll has risen to more than 16,000 people.
The report said 2,049,532 houses were destroyed, and 1,120,261 livestock perished in different parts of Pakistan.
The service says the total number of firemen at the federal level, combined with the number of their counterparts in the states, was inadequate to fight fire.
