A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia at 7:34 a.m. local time on 10 August 2026, centered near San José del Palmar in Chocó Department. It is Colo…
At 7:34 a.m. local time, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck near San José del Palmar, Chocó, at an intermediate depth of 96-110 km. Shaking was felt in 32 departmental ca…
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck near El Calvario, Meta, roughly 50 km from Bogotá, killing 11 people and injuring 4,181. It partially damaged a building in central Bog…
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake at just 17 km depth struck Colombia's coffee-growing region. DANE's official count: 1,185 deaths; widely cited aggregate estimates: ~1,900. Bu…
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck near Nevado del Huila, triggering a massive debris avalanche down the Páez River that killed an estimated 1,100 people, mostly from the…
A shallow magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck on Maundy Thursday, killing 267 people and damaging roughly 14,000 buildings, mostly unreinforced colonial-era masonry. Directl…
A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck offshore near Tumaco, generating a tsunami up to 6 meters that caused most of the disaster's estimated 300-600 deaths. Part of a ruptur…
A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck at an extreme depth of 645 km - among the deepest ever recorded worldwide. Felt from Bogotá to Buenos Aires and São Paulo, but caused m…
An earthquake estimated at Ms 7.1-7.3 produced Modified Mercalli Intensity VIII in Bogotá - the most damaging earthquake to affect the capital on record. Only 6 deaths w…
An estimated Mw 8.8 offshore megathrust earthquake - one of the largest ever recorded anywhere on Earth - generated a Pacific-wide tsunami with waves up to 5 meters and…
Two earthquakes struck the Ecuador-Colombia border region within a day of each other, estimated at M6.3-7.7. Historical sources cite combined casualties as high as 70,00…
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