Neiva

Earthquakes near Neiva through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 3 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Neiva, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest on either list was a magnitude 7.7 on February 3, 1906.

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Neiva in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 6.8 on June 6, 1994 (23 km E of Toribío, Colombia), for which NOAA records 650 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 8 here, back to 1827. NOAA records deaths in 7 of the events here, 1,018 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.6 on January 26, 2019 (13 km NW of Santa María, Colombia). NOAA’s record here begins on November 16, 1827 with an earthquake (Bogota, Neiva, Popayan, Pasto, Huila). 3 of the 8 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here came before 1927. NOAA lists 3 significant eruptions of one volcano within 100 km of Neiva. The largest was Huila, Nevado del on April 18, 2007, at 3 on the volcanic explosivity index.

The events

  • January 26, 2019Earthquake · M 5.613 km NW of Santa María, Colombia · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • September 30, 2012Earthquake · M 7.311 km WNW of San Agustín, ColombiaUSGS
  • April 18, 2007Eruption · VEI 3Huila, Nevado delNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • June 6, 1994Earthquake · M 6.823 km E of Toribío, Colombia · 650 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • February 3, 1906Earthquake · M 7.7NOAA NCEI
  • November 16, 1827Earthquake · M 7.0 (est.)Bogota, Neiva, Popayan, Pasto, Huila · 250 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Neiva 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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