List of earthquakes in Colombia

This is a list of earthquakes in Colombia, The most recent quake was registered in El Calvario in 2008. Colombia is a seismically active country and has a large seismic risk due to its location on the Pacific ring of fire.

List of notable earthquakes

Date Time‡ Place Latitude Longitude Fatalities Magnitude Comments Sources
16 November 1827 22:45 Bogotá 1.8 -76.4 250 9.0? Ms [1]
20 January 1834 12:00 Putumayo 1.20 -77.00 80 7.0 unknown scale [2]
18 May 1875 16:25 Cúcuta
see 1875 Cúcuta earthquake		 7.90 -72.50 10,000 7.5 unknown scale [3]
31 January 1906 15:36 Esmeraldas
see 1906 Ecuador-Colombia earthquake		 1.0 -81.5 ~1,000 8.8 Mw Triggered a large tsunami that caused at least 500 casualties on the coast of Colombia [4]
31 August 1917 11:36 Bogotá 4.0 -74.0 6 7.3 Ms [5]
9 January 1936 09:23 0.09 -77.37 250 7.0 unknown scale [6]
19 January 1958 14:07 Ecuador, Colombia 1.5 -79.5 111 7.6 Ms [7]
9 February 1967 15:24 Neiva 2.90 -74.90 98 6.8 unknown scale [8]
31 July 1970 17:08 -1.46 -72.56 1 7.6 Mw [9]
12 December 1979 07:59 Nariño Department 1.598 -79.358 600 7.7 Ms [10]
1983 Popayán 300 5.5
6 June 1994 20:47 Páez 2.917 -76.057 295 6.8 Mw [11]
25 January 1999 18:19:16.8 Armenia
see 1999 Armenia, Colombia earthquake		 4.461 -75.724 1185 6.2 Mw [12]
24 May 2008 19:20:42.4 El Calvario
see 2008 El Calvario earthquake		 4.330 -73.764 6 5.6 Mw [13]

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

See also

References

  1. ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1827 Earthquake". http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=1706&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display. Retrieved 20 March 2011. 
  2. ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1834 Earthquake". http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=1766&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display. Retrieved 20 March 2011. 
  3. ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1875 Earthquake". http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=2233&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=displayv. Retrieved 20 March 2011. 
  4. ^ 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. http://bssa.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/74/2/577. Retrieved 2011-03-20. 
  5. ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1917 Earthquake". http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=3095&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display. Retrieved 20 March 2011. 
  6. ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1936 Earthquake". http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=3568&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display. Retrieved 20 March 2011. 
  7. ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1958 Earthquake". http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=4160&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display. Retrieved 20 March 2011. 
  8. ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1967 Earthquake". http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=4160&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display. Retrieved 20 March 2011. 
  9. ^ IISEE. "Search page". Catalog of Damaging Earthquakes in the World (Through June, 2009). http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/utsu/index_eng.html. Retrieved 20 March 2011. 
  10. ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1979 Earthquake". http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=4863&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display. Retrieved 20 March 2011. 
  11. ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1994 Earthquake". http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=5387&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display. Retrieved 20 March 2011. 
  12. ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 1999 Earthquake". http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=5387&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display. Retrieved 20 March 2011. 
  13. ^ NGDC. "Comments for the 2008 Earthquake". http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?eq_0=7879&t=101650&s=13&d=22,26,13,12&nd=display. Retrieved 20 March 2011.