List of earthquakes in Colombia

This is a list of earthquakes in Colombia. Colombia is a seismically active country and has a large seismic risk due to its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Earthquakes

Date Time
(UTC−05)		 Place Information Fatalities Magnitude Intensity Tsunami Sources
12 July 1785 07:45 Bogotá 1785 Viceroyalty of New Granada earthquake 6.9 Ms [1]
16 November 1827 22:45 Bogotá 1827 Bogotá earthquake 250 7.7 Ms X No [2][3]
20 January 1834 12:00 Putumayo 1834 Putumayo earthquake 80 7.0 ? VIII No [4]
15 and 16 August 1868 14:30, 01:30 Ecuador, Colombia 1868 Ecuador earthquakes 70,000 6.3 and 6.7 Ms No [5]
18 May 1875 16:25 Cúcuta 1875 Cúcuta earthquake 10,000 7.5 ? IX No [6]
31 January 1906 15:36 Esmeraldas (Ecuador) 1906 Ecuador–Colombia earthquake ~1,000 8.8 Mw 8.6 ML VIII Yes (5 m - 16 ft) [7]
31 August 1917 11:36 Bogotá 1917 Bogotá earthquake 6 7.3 Ms VII No [8]
9 January 1936 09:23 Tuquerres 1936 Tuquerres earthquake 250 7.0 ? VIII No [9]
19 January 1958 14:07 Ecuador, Colombia 1958 Ecuador–Colombia earthquake 111 7.8 Mw 7.6 ML VIII Yes (1.5 m - 4.92 ft) [10]
9 February 1967 15:24 Neiva 1967 Neiva earthquake 98 7.2 Mw 6.8 ML VII No [11]
31 July 1970 17:08 Amazonas department 1970 Colombia earthquake 1 8.0 Mw 7.7 ML IV No [12]
23 November 1979 18:40 El Cairo 1979 El Cairo earthquake 44 7.2 Mw 6.7 ML VII No [13]
12 December 1979 07:59 Tumaco 1979 Tumaco earthquake 600 7.7 Ms IX Yes (5 m - 16 ft) [14]
31 March 1983 08:15 Popayán 1983 Popayán earthquake 300 5.5 ML VIII No
6 June 1994 20:47 Páez 1994 Paez river earthquake 295 6.8 Mw VII No [15]
19 January 1995 10:05 Tauramena 1995 Tauramena earthquake 6 6.0 ML 6.5 Mw V No [16]
8 February 1995 13:40 Cali 1995 Cali earthquake 35 6.4 Mw VII No [17]
25 January 1999 18:19 Armenia 1999 Armenia earthquake 1,185 6.2 Mw VIII No [18]
15 November 2004 03:34 Bajo Baudó 2004 Bajo Baudó earthquake 0 6.7 ML 7.2 Mw VI No
9 September 2007 20:49 Gorgona Island, Colombia 2007 Gorgona Island earthquake 0 6.2 Ms
24 May 2008 19:20 El Calvario 2008 El Calvario earthquake 11 5.6 Mw VII No [19]
30 September 2012 11:31 La Vega 2012 La Vega earthquake 0 7.3 Mw V No [20]
9 February 2013 09:16 Nariño 2013 Nariño earthquake 0 7.0 Mw V No [21]
13 August 2013 10:43 Chocó department 2013 Chocó earthquake 0 6.5 Mw VI No [22]
10 March 2015 15:55 Santander department 2015 Santander earthquake 0 6.6 Mw VI No [23]

Magnitudes - Mw Moment magnitude scale, ML Richter magnitude scale, Ms Surface wave magnitude, ? Unknown Scale

See also

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ NGDC. "Comments for the 1827 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  3. ↑ "Consulta al Catálogo de Hipocentros (1520 - 1991)". Centro Regional de Sismología para América del Sur. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
  4. ↑ NGDC. "Comments for the 1834 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  5. ↑ Giesecke, A.; Capera A.A.G., Leschiutta I., Migliorini E. & Valverde L.R. (2004). "The CERESIS earthquake catalogue and database of the Andean Region: background, characteristics and examples of use" (PDF). Annals of Geophysics. 47 (2/3): 421–435. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
  6. ↑ NGDC. "Comments for the 1875 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  7. ↑ Mendoza, C.; Dewey J.W. (1984). "Seismicity associated with the great Colombia-Ecuador earthquakes of 1942, 1958, and 1979: Implications for barrier models of earthquake rupture". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 74 (2): 577–593. Retrieved 2011-03-20.
  8. ↑ NGDC. "Comments for the 1917 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  9. ↑ NGDC. "Comments for the 1936 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  10. ↑ NGDC. "Comments for the 1958 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  11. ↑ NGDC. "Comments for the 1967 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  12. ↑ IISEE. "Search page". Catalog of Damaging Earthquakes in the World (Through June, 2009). Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  13. ↑ NGDC. "Comments for the november 1979 Earthquake". Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  14. ↑ NGDC. "Comments for the 1979 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  15. ↑ NGDC. "Comments for the 1994 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  16. ↑ NGDC. "Comments for the January 1995 Earthquake". Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  17. ↑ NGDC. "Comments for the 1995 Earthquake". Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  18. ↑ NGDC. "Comments for the 1999 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  19. ↑ NGDC. "Comments for the 2008 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  20. ↑ USGS. "Comments for the 2012 Earthquake". Retrieved 30 September 2012.
  21. ↑ "M 7.0 - COLOMBIA - 2013-02-09 14:16:07 UTC". European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
  22. ↑ "M 6.5 - COLOMBIA - 2013-08-13 03:36:40 UTC". Servicio Geológico Colombiano. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
  23. ↑ http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=431256
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