M 4.6 in Colombia on 20 Jul 2026 01:44 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1552931
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 152 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.7581 , -73.0723
Event Date: 20 Jul 2026 01:44 UTC
19 Jul 2026 20:44 Local
Exposed Population:
110 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 20 Jul 2026 02:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000t1vc Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Moderate mag. 4.6 earthquake - 41 km south of Bucaramanga, Departament.. 7/20/2026 2:22:00 AM.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 occurred in the evening on Sunday, July 19th, 2026, at 8:44 pm local time near Bucaramanga, Departamento de Santander, Colombia, as reported by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). According to pr
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Moderate 4.7 quake hits near Bucaramanga, Departamento de Santander, C.. 7/20/2026 2:22:00 AM.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),