Information message about strong earthquake in Colombia on June 8, 2025

A strong earthquake (destructive at the epicenter on the SIS-17 scale) with M=6.5 occurred on June 8, 2025 at 13:08 Greenwich Time (16:08 Moscow Time) in Colombia.<br /> SIS-17 - Earthquakes. Seismic intensity scale. State Standard 57546–2017.

Parameters of the earthquake have been determined in the Alert Service (AS) of Information Processing Center (IPC) of Geophysical Survey of RAS in Obninsk with station data obtained from digital and analog seismic stations of Russia, countries of CIS and from abroad. Alert message on this earthquake has been delivered in 23 min after registration to the Ministry of Emergency of the Russian Federation (EMERCOM).

Preliminary processing has been done with data from 17 stations, accurate processing - with data from 46.

The red marker on the map is the epicenter of the earthquake, which was located in central Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca, at a depth of 10 km, 52 km east-northeast of Villavicencio and 96 km east-southeast of Bogota, the capital of Colombia.
Time in origin (GMT) Latitude, degree Longitude, degree Depth, km Stations number Ms/N mb/N I0 (calculated) GAP Center
1 13:08:04.7 4.53 -73.31 10.0 17 6.5/4 9-9.5 GS RAS(Preliminary)
Federal research center, Geophysical survey of Russian Academy of Sciences
2 13:08:05.9 4.51 -73.16 9.0 158 6.4/523 6.4/1119 39 NEIC
National Earthquakes Information Center of US Geological Service
3 13:08:06.8 4.49 -73.15 8.9 791 Mw 6.3 6.4/356 26 CSEM
European - Mediterranean seismological center
4 13:08:05.0 4.39 -73.25 10.0 46 6.5/30 6.5/11 9-9.5 108 GS RAS(Verified)
Federal research center, Geophysical survey of Russian Academy of Sciences