Ibagué

Earthquakes near Ibagué through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 9 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Ibagué, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. 3 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest on either list was an estimated magnitude 8.2 on June 18, 1826 (Engativa,Bogota,Ramiriqui,Umbita,Tunja).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded one earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Ibagué in the last 30 days.

The latest: magnitude 4.6 on September 23 (10 km NW of Chaparral, Colombia).

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 5.6 on January 19, 2024 (7 km E of Cartago, Colombia), for which NOAA records one death. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 15 here, back to 1595. NOAA records deaths in 9 of the events here, 26,032 in all. NOAA’s record here begins on March 12, 1595 with an eruption (Ruiz, Nevado del). 9 of the 15 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here came before 1927. NOAA lists 3 significant eruptions of one volcano within 100 km of Ibagué. The largest was Ruiz, Nevado del on March 12, 1595, at 4 on the volcanic explosivity index. The deadliest was Ruiz, Nevado del on November 13, 1985, which killed 23,080 people by NOAA’s count.

The events

  • January 19, 2024Earthquake · M 5.67 km E of Cartago, Colombia · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • November 13, 1985Eruption · VEI 3Ruiz, Nevado del · 23,080 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
  • March 12, 1595Eruption · VEI 4Ruiz, Nevado del · 636 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

Good to know

  • An event counts for Ibagué 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.

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