Throughout the day there are several earthquakes that have been recorded in the national territory. El Dovio – Valle del Cauca, Los Santos – Santander, Mesetas – Meta and Docordó, Litoral del San Juán – Chocó.
Colombia News.
This Thursday has been a day of several strong earthquakes in the Colombian territory according to the data of the Colombian Geological Service and the reports that have been known from the different regions.
Departments such as Valle del Cauca, Santander, Meta and Chocó have been the epicenters of the five telluric movements that have occurred up to the time of publication of this note.
The first of them, according to the data collected, was recorded at 12:49 noon, with a magnitude of 3.3 and a depth of 112 km, and its epicenter was El Dovio – Valle del Cauca.
An hour later, the second of the day was known, 1:50 with a magnitude of 3.1 and a depth of 149 km in Los Santos – Santander, (an area of frequent earthquakes in the country). Later in the same region but at 4:22 with a magnitude of 3.0 and a depth of 153 km, Los Santos moved again.
In Los Santos Santander there were two tremors.
It is an area of constant telluric movements
At 2:20 pm Colombia moved again, this time the epicenter was Mesetas – Meta, 2.7 magnitude and with a surface depth of less than 30 km.
#EarthquakesColombiaSGC Seismic Event – Bulletin Updated 1, 2022-05-12, 14:20 local time Magnitude 2.7, Superficial Depth (less than 30 km), Plateaus – Meta, Colombia Did you feel this earthquake? report it https://t.co/ehDqPbETsf https://t.co/63pt8nVsSe #NewsInDevelopment pic.twitter.com/v5GYaFE1nO
— Geological Survey (@sgcol) May 12, 2022
But the strongest ‘totazo’ still hadn’t arrived
In Cali the sky was cloudy, the afternoon was cold and a new day of rain was expected like the day before.
However, when the clock struck 4:23, fear and despair took over many.
A new earthquake of magnitude 5.2, with a depth of 50 km and whose epicenter was El Litoral del San Juán (Docordó) – Chocó, generated panic in different regions of the country.
It was felt violently in Chocó, Valle del Cauca, Risaralda, Quindío, Huila and also in Cauca.
Damage to D1 of Calima El Darien, where the tremor “felt very hard”
According to the Departmental Risk Management Secretariatreports of telluric movement were received in:
- Cali, Candelaria, Ulloa, Buga, La Cumbre, Ansermanuevo, El Dovio, Vijes, Andalusia, Yotoco, Roldanillo, Obando, Geneva, Cairo, Palmira, Río Frío, Pradera, Alcalá, La Victoria, La Unión, Buenaventura, Yumbo, Guacarí, Bolívar, Bugalagrande, Tuluá, Algeria, Río Frío, San Pedro, Florida and Jamundí.
After the earthquake that was felt violently in the Valley, the balances report damages in the municipality of Calima – El Darién.
⚠️ In Calima El Darien, this Thursday’s tremor felt “very strong”, there was damage to this establishment, ‘Café al Parque’ next to the church, and in some warehouses where the merchandise fell. ? https://t.co/ndWmqlJbpY Video: courtesy. pic.twitter.com/uvmsRgR0i2
– TuBarco (@tubarconews) May 12, 2022
Where “the collapse of a roof of a kiosk in the Fundadores park in an urban area” was reported and how far relief agencies went to verify the situation.
In the Municipal Council of Calima there was also a striking situation at the time of the tremor.
