List of earthquakes in Colombia
Appearance
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 |
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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 | [citation needed] | ||
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]
- ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1827 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ "Consulta al Catálogo de Hipocentros (1520 - 1991)". Centro Regional de Sismología para América del Sur. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
- ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1834 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ 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.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1875 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ 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.
- ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1917 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1936 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1958 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1967 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ IISEE. "Search page". Catalog of Damaging Earthquakes in the World (Through June, 2009). Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ NGDC. "Comments for the november 1979 Earthquake". Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1979 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1994 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ NGDC. "Comments for the January 1995 Earthquake". Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1995 Earthquake". Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1999 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 2008 Earthquake". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ USGS. "Comments for the 2012 Earthquake". Retrieved 30 September 2012.
- ^ "M 7.0 - COLOMBIA - 2013-02-09 14:16:07 UTC". European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
- ^ "M 6.5 - COLOMBIA - 2013-08-13 03:36:40 UTC". Servicio Geológico Colombiano. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
- ^ http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=431256