The Colombian geological service and users on social networks reported the telluric movement in the middle of Holy Week.
News Colombia.
Although it is customary to tremble frequently at the table of the Saints, a municipality that is located in the department of Santander, the morning of this Friday, April 18, felt strong in Bucaramanga, Antioquia, Cundinamarca, Tolima and Boyacá.
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When the majority of inhabitants of those areas were resting in their homes, the earth shook several times being the tremor of 5:31 am, of magnitude 5.2 and deep 152 kilometersthe strongest according to the Colombian Geological Service (SGC).
“Did you feel that earthquake?”asked in his social networks the Colombian government entity responsible for geocientific research and monitoring of geological threats in the country about the natural phenomenon that occurred on Good Friday.
#SISSCOLOMBIASGC Seismic event-Updated Bulletin 1, 2025-04-18, 05:31 Local time Magnitude 5.2, depth 149 km, Los Santos-Santander, Colombia felt this earthquake? Report it https://t.co/pgc7oc2o7j https://t.co/63pt8nvsse #NOTICAEndesarrollo #Shaking pic.twitter.com/wobve39rsp
– Colombian Geological Service (@SGCol) April 18, 2025
Reactions after the tremor of this Good Friday in Colombia
On the X (previously Twitter) platform, several users found that the Earth trembled, for example, in Bogotá, Maceo, Medellín, Paipa, and other areas of the country.
The first of several earthquakes reported by the geological service this Good Friday felt after 3 in the morning.
He felt in Bogotá
– Diego Rattalino (@drattalinob) April 18, 2025
He felt strong Maceo (ant).
– Herrkatze (@dhbhallo) April 18, 2025
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