March 10, 2015 Earthquake: Antioquia, Santander, Colombia
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck Antioquia, Santander, Colombia on March 10, 2015 at 20:55:44 UTC, 155 km below the surface.
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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
- March 10, 2015
- Time
- 20:55:44 UTC
- Place
- Antioquia, Santander, Colombia
- Magnitude
- 6.2 (Mw)
- Focal depth
- 155 km (96 mi)
- Intensity
- 6 on the Modified Mercalli scale
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 6.776° N, 72.988° W
- Country
- Colombia
The toll
- Damage
- Severe (about $5 to $25 million)
- Houses destroyed
- 180
- Houses damaged
- 2,167
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.
One hundred homes destroyed and 120 damaged at Rionegro. Seventy homes destroyed and 167 damaged at Betulia. Ten homes destroyed and 80 damaged at Matanza. About 1,800 homes damaged in Santander. Damage to buildings in Barrancabermeja, Betania, Bogota, Bucaramanga, El Playon, Engativa, Mesa de los Santos, Modelia and Santa Rita. Landslides occurred at Barrancabermeja and Bucaramanga. Felt (V) at Bucaramanga, Chia, Cota and Floridablanca; (IV) at Barranquilla, Bogota, Cartagena, Cota, Envigado, Ibague, Itagui, Jordan, La Calera, Manizales, Medellin, Pereira, Piedecuesta, Soacha and Villavicencio; (III) at Armenia, Cali and Sabaneta. Felt (IV) at San Cristobal and (III) at Chacao, Venezuela. Also felt at Caracas, Ejido, Maracaibo, San Carlos, Tariba and Trujillo. Felt widely in west-central Colombia and western Venezuela. Barrancabermeja, Santander, Colombia - CDI: 6; La Ceja, Antioquia, Colombia - CDI: 6; Madrid, Cundinamarca, Colombia - CDI: 6; Leiva, Boyacá, Colombia - CDI: 5; San José de Miranda, Santander, Colombia - CDI: 5 (reference #13456)
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- May 18, 1875, Cucuta,san Cayetano,villa del Rosario, Colombia
- July 9, 1950, Anboledas, Colombia
- February 26, 1849, Tachira (Lobatera), Venezuela
- July 29, 1967, Colombia
- October 18, 1981, Venezuela-N Colombia
- January 19, 1995, Bogota, Manizales, Miraflores, Colombia
- April 18, 1974, NE, Cepita, San Andreas, Colombia
- December 31, 1868, Robador,simacota,barichara DE Cabrera, Colombia
- February 15, 1796, N Santander,pamplona, Colombia
- January 16, 1644, Merida, Pamploma,herran, Venezuela, Colombia
- March 16, 1644, Pamplona, San Cristobal, Colombia, Venezuela
- September 1799, Cartago, Colombia
- March 6, 1869, San Cristobal, Bogota, Venezuela, Colombia
- February 17, 1869, San Cristobal,tachira (Lobatera), Venezuela
- November 26, 1980, E, Venezuela, 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 10336.