The panel was convened in early 2011 by nepec the national. There is a region in central santander that shakes and rattles 365 days of the year. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Because of seismic and volcanic activity associated with tectonic plate. The earthquake also triggered a tsunami with further victims and destructions. Colombia is a seismically active country and has a large seismic risk in many areas of its territory due to its location at the boundaries of the malpelo, panama, caribbean, north andes where most earthquakes occurred and south american plates along the pacific ring of fire. Bogota officially bogota, distrito capital, abbreviated bogota, d. After getting elected in 2011, gustavo petro, a populist mayor, clashed with. The colombian geological survey reported that the tremors originated from the santander department area and were 158 kilometers deep. Language watch edit wikimedia commons has media related to earthquakes in colombia. Report of the independent expert panel on new madrid seismic. Earthquakes in colombia, huila, colombia most recent.
This article lists notable tsunamis, which are sorted by the date and location that the tsunami occurred. As a nowretired professional geologist, formerly with chevron, educator and science writer for the national science foundation, its often been my role to prepare the public for seismic events especially coming from san francisco as i do. Abstract triggering of earthquakes on upper plate faults during and shortly. A light earthquake magnitude 4 mlmb has struck on tuesday, 14 kilometers 9 miles from aratoca in colombia.
Events in this list and shown in red on our realtime earthquake map and list are considered significant events, and they are determined by a combination of magnitude, number of did you. The southeastern and extreme eastern portions of colombia are not as. Earthquakes in colombia since 1950 the strongest earthquake in colombia happened on 12121979 in the region off shore, pacific ocean with a magnitude of 7. This page was last edited on 8 september 2019, at 00. The 18111812 earthquakes, the 1450 ad earthquakes, and the 900 ad. The state of the worlds children 2011 invited adult and adolescent contributors. Measured by the size of the country, earthquakes occur rather rarely. Since 1950 more than 3500 people died by direct consequences of earthquakes. Also, see zarsky and stanley 20, bebbington 20, and arellano.
Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Bogota, colombia a widely felt earthquake has shaken colombia s capital, swaying buildings. Light earthquake 4 mag, 14 km n of aratoca, colombia. Policy strategy for public financial management of natural disaster risk 5 of replacement costs estimated by catastrophe risk models to provide financial information that enables the mhcp to design an optimal combination of financial instruments through costbenefit and dynamic financial analysis. The first documented earthquake with its epicentre in presentday colombia territory took place in 1566, 2 with the epicentre estimated around santander in the department of cauca. The shifting of tectonic plates in a depth of 3 km resulted in 600 deaths. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless they result in damage andor casualties, or are notable for some other reason. David lee no place in the world is earthquake safe.