July 14, 1947 Earthquake: Pasto, Colombia
A magnitude 6 earthquake struck Pasto, Colombia on July 14, 1947 at 06:59:28 UTC, 10 km below the surface. It killed 2 people.
Map
Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Date
- July 14, 1947
- Time
- 06:59:28 UTC
- Place
- Pasto, Colombia
- Magnitude
- 6 (Mw)
- Focal depth
- 10 km (6 mi)
- Intensity
- 8 on the Modified Mercalli scale
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 1.300° N, 77.230° W
- Country
- Colombia
The toll
- Deaths
- 2
- Injuries
- Few (about 1 to 50)
- Damage
- Moderate (about $1 to $5 million)
- Houses destroyed
- Many (101 to 1,000)
Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
14 July 1947, 02:00 (local time), 1.3N 77.23W, magnitude 6 (Mw), depth 10 (reference #12870)
14 July 1947, 06:59:28 (UTC), 1.4N 77W, magnitude 5.5 (Ms), (reference #1205)
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- August 16, 1868, San Pablo, Guayaquil,ibarra, Colombia, Ecuador
- March 6, 1987, Napo Province, Quito, Tulcan, Ecuador
- March 31, 1983, SW, Popayan, Colombia
- December 14, 1923, Ipiales, Colombia
- January 9, 1936, Colombia
- November 16, 1827, Bogota, Neiva, Popayan, Pasto, Huila, Colombia
- August 7, 1935, Funes, Colombia
- August 12, 2014, Quito, Ecuador
- June 12, 2018, Pasto, Colombia
- March 1, 1834, Pasto, Colombia
- February 9, 2013, Cauca, Narino, Valle del Cauca, Risaralda, Colombia
- January 20, 1834, Putumayo,pasto, Popayan, Santa Marta, Colombia
- August 15, 1868, El Angel, Concepcion, Ecuador
- July 25, 2022, Ecuador, Colombia
- March 6, 2007, Cauca, Sotara, Purace,, Colombia
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Sources
Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 3855.