Earthquakes near Facatativá through history

The deadliest was not the strongest: an estimated magnitude 6.1 on June 16, 1805 (Honda,Mariquita), for which NOAA records 200 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 13 here, back to 1743. NOAA records deaths in 6 of the events here, 233 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.6 on May 24, 2008 (Meta, Quetame). NOAA’s record here begins on October 18, 1743 with an earthquake (Bogota). 9 of the 13 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here came before 1927.

• May 24, 2008Earthquake · M 5.6Meta, Quetame · 6 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• September 18, 1900Earthquake · M 7.9NOAA NCEI
• June 18, 1826Earthquake · M 8.2 (est.)Engativa,Bogota,Ramiriqui,Umbita,TunjaNOAA NCEI
• June 16, 1805Earthquake · M 6.1 (est.)Honda,Mariquita · 200 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
• October 18, 1743EarthquakeBogotaNOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Facatativá when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
• USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
• NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
• Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
• A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
• Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Earthquakes, live, The world through history