M 5.5 in Colombia on 10 Dec 2025 08:27 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 1514353
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 140.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.8277 , -73.0581
Event Date: 10 Dec 2025 08:27 UTC
10 Dec 2025 03:27 Local
Exposed Population: 1.5 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 10 Dec 2025 08:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rtuk Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),